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Blow after blow for Barak

JERUSALEM, March 7 (JTA) Prime Minister Ehud Barak is down on that commodity so essential to a politician luck. On Tuesday, in a screaming headline, the country’s largest-circulation daily, Yediot Achronot, announced that an unnamed minister was under investigation for sexually molesting a staffer. Within hours, the name was out Yitzhak Mordechai, […]

Israel pledges to leave Lebanon by July

JERUSALEM, March 5 (JTA) The Israeli government has unanimously endorsed a decision to pull Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon by July 2000, hinting this could be done even without an agreement with Syria. After 18 years, “it is the end of the tragedy. It is the return of the boys home and the […]

Pope wants reconciliation, but relations strained

ROME, March 7 (JTA) Pope John Paul II will act this month on two prominent themes that have colored his papacy: seeking forgiveness for past Catholic errors, including the treatment of Jews, and his intense personal dream of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land But his actions on these issues are coming amid […]

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Blow after blow for Barak

Israel pledges to leave Lebanon by July

Pope wants reconciliation, but relations strained

Israel on alert for terror attacks

Is a theater director like a rabbi?

Internet ‘Wanted’ poster omits Palestinian killers

Ethiopian-Israeli kids get dolls that look like them

London Holocaust trial nears end

Online love for ‘Generation A

Commandos thwart possible terror attack

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