Olmert Trying to Lure UTJ Into Coalition
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is exploring options to bring the United Torah Judaism party into the government following threats by Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman to quit the government if Olmert negotiates the fate of Jerusalem with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Abu Mazen.
Olmert met with UTJ MK Avraham Ravitz last Tuesday, one day before U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Israel and two days after Lieberman threatened to bolt the coalition if Jerusalem was put on the table. Lieberman and Olmert are scheduled to meet this week, before the Yisrael Beiteinu secretariat decides whether-or-not to leave the government in protest of negotiations with the P.L.O.
Sorry to hear this. I wonder if they were religious Jews with influence in the Haredi or Shas parties.by
(IsraelNN.com) A representative from the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute will travel together to Namibia with a forensics team headed by Police Superintendent Itzik Korino Sunday night.
The six-member team will be tasked with identifying the bodies of five Israelis who died in a plane crash in the African nation Friday afternoon.
Namibia is a major diamond mining center. It is believed that the Israeli victims were high-level diamond merchants from the Ramat Gan diamond exchange.
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