Yasser Arafat believes that Israeli intelligence operatives were perhaps responsible for last Friday’s terror attack at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market. The Palestinian leader reportedly discussed the idea during a conversation in Ramallah with Labor Knesset member Yossi Beilin, one of the architects of the Oslo accords. Arafat said he had growing suspicions that the operatives were attempting to derail Israeli approval of the Wye agreement.
A Season of Big Decisions. From the Knesset campaign to American midterms, Jewish communities are weighing what comes next. Help JTA keep delivering the deeper context.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
