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In an interview with Israel and international media, the
captain of the Karine A, captured by Israel Navy
commandos last Thursday, said Palestinian Authority officials
were directly involved in the purchase and smuggling of the
50 tons of arms it carried. He also said the initial
preparations took place after the September 11 terror attacks
in the US. Israeli authorities said that the ship was
purchased by the PA on October 10. Staunch Opposition to Knesset Shabbos Law Proposal The Rabbinical Committee for Kedushas Shabbos, under the
aegis of maranan verabonon, unequivocally opposes the
recently proposed Shabbos Law. This law, the Committee
states, contains a very real potential for the expansion of
Shabbos desecration throughout the country. The decision to
oppose this law was unanimously accepted at the committee's
recent meeting. UTJ MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni called for the immeidate firing or
suspension of Professor Yehuda Hiss, head of the L. Greenberg
Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, over the
retention of parts from autopsied soldiers' bodies. On Monday
it was revealed that a soldier's skull was on display in a
glass case, and most of his body was held in the Institute,
in violation of the law and of basic principles of human
decency. Rabbonim have set up an organization called Kanfei Yonah as
an information center about the problem of the flight paths
of airlines that take off from Ben Gurion airport in Israel.
West-bound airplanes fly right over the Holon cemetery,
making it a trip that is prohibited for Kohanim.
Another Antisemitic Attack in Paris Suburb A band of Arab youths attacked a synagogue situated in the
basement of an apartment building in the town of Gosanville,
north of Paris, with Molotov cocktails on motzei Shabbos
parshas Shemos. During the attack, which took place at
two in the morning, the home of a Jewish family living above
the synagogue was damaged. Crown Heights Murderers Win New Trial A U.S. federal appeals court ordered a new trial for two
black men who were convicted of civil rights violations in
the fatal stabbing of a chareidi Jew during four days of
violence that shook Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991. Lemrick
Nelson Jr., now 27, is currently serving 19 2/3 years in
prison; Charles Price, 47, is serving a 21-year sentence. Stormy Weather in Israel
A white blanket covered many parts of Jerusalem briefly on
Monday. Snow fell more seriously in the North, cutting off
Tzfas. Snow also reached lower peaks in the Galilee and fell
on Mount Carmel.
For a long time Israel and its foreign policy seemed to be
drifting, essentially swept along by current events in
America and Europe. Now it seems that Prime Minister Sharon
has maneuvered PA head Yasser Arafat into a corner and a very
weak position. PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Rabbi Binyomin relates that fifty years ago, when he was a
bochur, he boarded in the house of his Rosh Yeshiva.
Every week on Motzaei Shabbos, all the family gathered in the
living room for some sort of family meeting. Burning with
curiosity, the young Binyomin decided to try and see what
went on behind those closed doors. One time, when the coast
was clear, he stood close to the door and tried to hear what
was going on. IN-DEPTH FEATURES Tears of Light: The Sixtieth Yahrtzeit Of HaRav Dovid
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