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The picture for the first 10 months of the year is still
good, despite more than a month and a half of Palestinian
attacks. High-tech, which accounts for 57 percent of
industrial exports, went up 35 percent in dollar terms
compared to last year. Electronics did even better, with a
300 percent rise in exports, while computers and office
machines gained 39 percent. One of the most riveting -- and controversial --
photographs to have emerged from the recent weeks of
violence in Israel was that of a bloodied and dazed young
man with an angry Israeli policeman standing behind him
shouting. While the young man was first identified by the
Associated Press, the photo's source, as a Palestinian, it
soon became clear that he was an American studying in an
Israeli yeshiva -- a victim of Palestinians, who had dragged
him from a car, beaten and stabbed him. High Court convicts Korman of killing Palestinian Boy On Sunday the Supreme Court overturned a lower court
decision of about a year ago and convicted Nachum Korman of
manslaughter in the death of 11-year-old Palestinian boy
Hilmi Shousha in 1996. At the time the incident was
publicized as a case of Jewish brutality towards Arab
children. Following unsuccessful attempts to sell the Shachar
neighborhood in Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel (Ramat Hanevi'im)
to the secular sector, Housing and Construction Minister
Binyamin Ben Eliezer decided last week to allocate the
entire neighborhood exclusively to the chareidi population.
Egged Works with the Residents of Modi'in Illit Egged has announced that it will upgrade its public
transportation system in Modi'in Illit, on inter city as
well as intra city lines. At a meeting of Egged with the
local council head, Rabbi Yaakov Gutterman last week in
Modi'in Illit. The plan is to take effect shortly. Modi'in
Illit includes Kiryat Sefer and the Brachfeld areas. Prayer Rally in Jerusalem In light of the difficult situation in Eretz Yisroel, a
prayer rally was to beheld on Monday, 15 Cheshvan, Taanis
Sheini Basra. It was scheduled to take place in Yeshu'as
Yaakov, Mea Shearim's central shul. Otzar Beis Din of Shearis Yisroel Set Up HaRav Tzvi Weber, HaRav Tzvi Friedman and HaRav Eliezer
Halevi Dunner of the BaDaTz of Shearis Yisroel met recently
to deal with all issues of the shmitta year. In
conjunction with this, an Otzar Beis Din for shmitta
was set up on 4 Tishrei
Machon Taharas Yisroel Dedicated A mezuza was affixed to the new Machon Taharas Yisroel at a
large gathering marking the seventh year of the Mishkan
Shmuel beis medrash. The beis medrash, which
is headed by HaRav M. S. Klein, is located in Bnei Brak's Or
HaChaim neighborhood. Stopping Terror with Preparedness
Yasser Arafat has signed two major agreements,
"countersigned" and "guaranteed" by the President of the
United States, in which the main thing that he promised in
return for legitimacy and control of millions of people was
to renounce violence. Outside, with sun shining brightly and birds singing
gloriously as they hopped from branch to branch of green-
leafed trees, Rivka was able to forget that it was winter.
But inside her Bnei Brak apartment, it was a different
story. There, despite the kerosene heater that burnt all the
time and the layers of sweaters that she always wore, she
never stopped shivering. Nachalat Shiva: Pioneering Yishuv Eretz Yisroel
The earliest time of Kiddush Levonoh -- Kislev
The time of Kiddush Levonoh everywhere in the world
begins on Wednesday, 2:25 P.M., 2 Kislev (Nov. 29) in Eretz
Yisroel. The actual time in most of the world is therefore
from the beginning of Wednesday night, the eve of 3 Kislev.
In the eastern countries one can make Kiddush Levonoh
on the eve of 3 Kislev only according to the difference in
time zones in comparison to Eretz Yisroel. However, in the
extreme eastern countries it is impossible to make a
berochoh on Kiddush Levonoh at all that night
because the moon sets before the earliest time, and their
actual time is from the beginning of the next night,
Thursday night, the eve of 4 Kislev (Nov. 30).
The astronomical new moon precedes the molad this
month by approximately thirteen hours and thirteen minutes,
but since during the three days after the molad the
moon approaches its apogee (its highest point) and advances
slowly part of the influence of the astronomical new moon's
early appearance is canceled. This information is
significant for those who act according to the Chazon Ish
and do not make a berochoh on the moon until it is
big and high in the sky.
(Birur Halocho, V, Orach Chaim 426 and 601) |
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