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YWN Eretz Yisrael Morning News Roundup – 8/18/08


SECURITY/DEFENSE:

*Today, Monday, is day 62 of the virtual Gaza ceasefire.

*Today is Gilad Shalit’s 786th day in Hamas captivity.

*A Kassam rocket landed near Kibbutz Re’im on Sunday afternoon. No injuries.

POLITICS, DOMESTIC & MORE:

The family of missing IDF soldier Guy Chever is preparing a movie in the hope of bringing his plight to the forefront. He disappeared 11 years ago.

*The Supreme Court has barred Lior Ben-David, Mordechai Azuriel and Eyal Rachamim from Yehuda and Shomron, sentencing them to house arrest within the Green Line in the assault case against them.

*A group calling itself the “Committee for Democracy” is planning an effort, including a film, towards enlisting support for the release of convicted Rabin assassin Yigal Amir.

*PM Olmert blames DM Barak of preventing serious cabinet talks regarding security and defense matters.

*Public Security Minister Dichter signed an order prohibiting a protest in eastern Jerusalem’s Husseini College.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)



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