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Government Approves Extension of Draft Deferment Law
The government approved another five-year extension of the
draft deferment law for yeshiva students at this week's
cabinet meeting. The law was passed by 21 ministers, while
the new justice minister, Daniel Freedman, abstained.
Jews in Eretz Yisroel and abroad were shocked at the
discovery excavation work was unexpectedly carried out at the
ancient cemetery in Uman on Tuesday near the gravesite of R'
Nachman of Breslov zechuso yogen oleinu.
Paris Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois warned during a visit to
Israel last week against "an outbreak of antisemitism in
Europe" and promised that Catholics would assist the Jews and
defend them.
The biggest grocery buying spree of the year in the chareidi
community in Israel starts shortly before Rosh Chodesh Adar.
The early-birds already set out on Purim-purchasing missions
last weekend, but the peak comes the week before the
holiday.
Alert yeshiva managers in a Jerusalem neighborhood led to the
discovery of a professional con man posing as a donor who
tried to swindle several yeshivas.
Talks were held between Kadima and UTJ after Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert decided to step up his efforts to bring UTJ into
the coalition.
Companies continue to view the chareidi public as an
attractive marketing target based on its potential for
personal growth. EMI, an Israeli mortgage insurance company
and a part of the worldwide AIG Group, has been active in
Israel since 1995.
Ezer Mitzion Collects 28,000 Blood Samples in One-Day
Drive Gathering 28,000 blood samples in a single day, Ezer Mitzion
carried out the largest bone-marrow testing drive every held
in Israel or elsewhere. Every participant is currently being
entered into the organization's national blood-marrow
database, which now contains 300,000 blood samples for
genetic typing.
After Germany and France admitted their involvement in the
process of exterminating the Jewish people in the Holocaust,
a group of experts from the Centre for Historical Research
and Documentation of War and Contemporary Society has
published a comprehensive report commissioned by the Belgian
Senate. Life Sentences for Istanbul Synagogue Bombers Seven terrorists who maintained ties with al Qaeda received
life sentences for taking part in the attacks of November
2003 against Jewish and British targets in Istanbul. Twenty-
six of the defendants who appeared before the court were
acquitted and 29 were given prison sentences of varying
length.
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