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JERUSALEM, Sept. 5 (JTA) — Hopes for a possible cease-fire meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat have risen, despite five bomb attacks in Jerusalem this week. Just a day after prospects for a meeting appeared dim, both Peres and Arafat spoke optimistically of the possibility of meeting to […]

JERUSALEM, Sept. 4 (JTA) — Israelis had little time to savor, with grim gratification, the United States’ walkout from the U.N. World Conference Against Racism early this week. Early the following morning, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a hospital in downtown Jerusalem, gravely injuring a policeman and wounding a dozen passers-by. While […]