Jimmy Carter urged Israel to uproot more West Bank settlements. “You can’t have a Palestinian state living in peace and dignity if it is filled with Israeli settlements,” the former president, who is in the region to help monitor Wednesday’s Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections, said Monday in a speech at the Herzliya strategy conference.
More than one in three Israeli children are poor, new statistics show. Some 1.58 million Israelis lived below the poverty line as of June 2005, according to statistics compiled by the National Insurance Institute. The number of children living in poverty, 738,000, has jumped from 482,000 in 2000.
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