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NEWS Thirteen Jews being held in Iranian jails on suspicion of treason will be executed if convicted, according to the head of the Iranian judiciary system. His statement was made during a recent sermon at Teheran University. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a prominent U.S. black leader, offered to go to Iran to try to secure their release.
One Israel Guard Who Posed as Policeman During the
Elections is Released "Closed due to lack of public interest" is how the Jerusalem Police Department disposed of the affair of Roman Kagan, a security guard from Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak's One Israel party who posed as a policeman and "protected" a voting poll in Jerusalem's Beis Yisroel neighborhood. Call By Maranan Verabonon To Sanctify Shabbos in Petach Tikvah; Local Rabbis Rally for Shabbosby S. Baruchi and Yated Ne'eman staff Last week's call by maranan verabonon to strengthen Shabbos observance in Petach Tikvah was circulated in all Petach Tikvah synagogues this past Shabbos as well as to the thousands of the city's Torah-observant Jews. The Murderers of David Catorza Hy'd Sentenced to Life-in- Prisonby Betzalel Kahn and Itim The Regional Court of Jerusalem has sentenced the three murderers of the avreich R' Dovid Catorza Hy'd to life- in-prison, after they were be convicted by their own admission as part of a plea-bargaining deal. As part of the deal, the commander of the Hamas unit which murdered Catorza was sentenced to eighteen years in prison after he was convicted only of abetting the murder. Shearis Yisroel Harvests Wheat for Next Pesach's Matzosby B. Rabinowitz Excitement was in the air at wheat fields in the center and south of the country two weeks ago on the occasion of the harvesting of wheat for the Yad Binyomin Matzos Hamehudoros bakeries. The bakeries are under the strict supervision of the BaDaTz of Shearis Yisroel. Torah Book Fair at Rav Shefa Mall in Jerusalemby Betzalel Kahn This year's Torah Book Fair, held in Jerusalem's Rav Shefa shopping mall in the Shamgar neighborhood near Belz, is being sponsored by the Torah Culture Department of the Jerusalem Municipality for the first time. Israeli Residents Who Waived Their Right to Citizenship May Now Become Citizensby Betzalel Kahn and Mordecai Plaut The Interior Ministry has announced that it will enable residents who once waived their rights to Israeli citizenship, living in Israel as permanent residents, to cancel these declarations. Anyone doing so will receive full Israeli citizenship. 37,000 people signed such waivers close to the time of their aliya, due to fear of losing their citizenship in their country of origin. Rabbi Shmuel Kornblit To Serve Five More Months in Prisonby Betzalel Kahn Justice Ruth Or of the Jerusalem Regional Court sentenced Rabbi Shmuel Kornblit to a year-and-a-half of actual imprisonment along with a year-and-a-half suspended sentence. Rabbi Kornblit, charged with arson of a missionary apartment in Meah Shearim, is expected to be released from prison in five months. Rabbinical Committee Deliberates on the Rise in Shabbos Desecration in Jerusalemby Betzalel Kahn The Rabbinical Committee for the Sanctity of the Shabbos, under the aegis of maranan verabonon, recently held deliberations over the current the rise in Shabbos desecration in Jerusalem in various areas of concern. British Gas Wants to Prospect in Israelby Yated Ne'eman Staff British Gas, the UK's largest energy company with over $7 billion in sales in 1998, has made an offer for a National Infrastructure Ministry tender for oil-and-gas exploration in a 10,000-km area including all of Israel's territorial waters in the Mediterranean. It is the first time that a company of that stature has been willing to invest in prospecting for energy sources in Israel. Mayor of Beit Shemesh Ignores the City's Chareidi Communityby Betzalel Kahn Mayor of Beit Shemesh Dani Vaknin, continues to treat the city's chareidi community as second class citizens, despite the fact that they supported him in the municipal elections half a year ago. According to city residents, city hall workers went so far as to physically attack the principal of a Torah institution. International Group of Makaver Chassidim Visit Founder's Graveby Yated Ne'eman Staff Fifty-five years after the petirah of the Ohel Moshe, zt'l, father of the Makaver dynasty, a large group of Makaver chassidim visited his kever in the city of Mako in South Hungary. Led by the Makaver Rebbe, hundreds of chassidim came from all over the world. Yeshiva Student Attacked in Bayit Vegan by Betzalel Kahn Last Monday, a yeshiva student in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem was attacked by two youths as he was returning to his yeshiva. This attack is an outcome of the violence and incitement toward chareidim which is gaining widespread momentum among secular youth. Efforts are Made to Renovate Unsdorf Cemeteryby S. Fried The Jewish community of Slovakia has agreed to allot 15,000
dollars to the Rescue Committee involved in renovating the
Jewish cemetery of Unsdorf.
Unsdorf was a vibrant Jewish city prior to the Holocaust. All
that currently remains to commemorate the illustrious Jewish
past of Unsdorf is a cemetery. by Betzalel Kahn Last week, Rebbetzin Gittel Zaitchik, eishes chover to
HaRav Chaim Zaitchik zt"l, returned her pure soul to
its Maker.
She was born in Vilna, the daughter of HaRav Avrohom Shmuel
Kastzevsky, Hy"d an av beis din in the city of
Podbrezne and Midzel near Vilna.
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