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Bachar Reform Approved
by M Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staff

In a closed meeting on Tuesday, the Knesset Finance Committee accepted the compromises worked out in the original Bachar Committee reforms of the capital market. The final committee vote took place Tuesday evening. Although the details that are being argued about seem technical and abstruse, they affect the disposition of billions of shekels, and most economists agree that they are a very important step for the Israeli economy as a whole.

Face-Off and Stand-Off between Police and Marchers
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Police are aggressively, but nonviolently, opposing the large march planned by opponents of the Disengagement. As we go to press, marchers are gathered in Kfar Maimon and would like to walk towards Gaza, but the police are not letting them leave the area.

Municipal Strike in Bnei Brak Apparently Over
By A. Cohen

Bnei Brak sanitation workers resumed their normal work schedule on Monday following an interim agreement the respective representatives of the municipality and the employees reached during a hearing Monday morning at the Tel Aviv District Labor Court.

French PM Sheds Tears During Ceremony to Mark 63 Years Since Expulsion of Jews from Paris
By Arnon Yaffeh, Paris

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was choked by tears and had to interrupt his speech for a few moments during a ceremony at the Vel d'Hiver memorial at Drancy to mark the 63rd anniversary since the big roundup of Parisian Jews. He read aloud a letter written by a child at the Drancy Detention Camp describing the horrendous conditions and the fears the Jews faced at the Nazi transit camp run by the French under the Vichy government.

Demonstration Against Sale of Non-Kosher Meat in Haifa
By A. Ariel

Both religious and nonreligious residents in Haifa's Ramat Alon neighborhood held a protest demonstration Tuesday evening against the opening of a pork store in the heart of a residential area across the street from the neighborhood's main beis knesses.

Jerusalem Religious Council Petitions High Court Against Appointment of Rabbonim
By Betzalel Kahn

The executive board of the Religious Council of Jerusalem filed a High Court petition against the appointments of HaRav Binyomin Adler and HaRav Yosef Efrati as the rabbonim vested with the exclusive authority to issue kashrus certificates to businesses in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Ravitz Explains His Social Initiatives to BOI Governor Fischer
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Bank of Israel Governor Prof. Stanley Fischer and Deputy Welfare Minister Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz met for a conversation termed an "opening dialogue" on various welfare issues. The meeting was also attended by the head of the Bank of Israel's research division.

Financial Agreements Signed for Jerusalem Light Rail System
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

An agreement was signed in the Prime Minister's Office on Sunday to raise NIS 1.9 billion for construction of the initial phase of Jerusalem's light rail rapid transit system.

Rabbi Ravitz Demands Mifal Hapayis Stop Commercials Promoting Idleness
By G. Kleiman

Deputy Welfare Minister MK Avrohom Ravitz contacted the chairman of Mifal Hapayis to request that he stop television commercials calling on the public to buy lottery tickets in the hopes of winning a salary for life. In his letter to Mifal Hapayis Chairman Shimon Katzenelson, Rabbi Ravitz says the commercials indirectly encourage a life of idleness, and teach viewers to evade work.

Rav Avrohom Weiss zt"l, and Rav Ze'ev Boruch Teitelbaum zt"l and Mrs. Teitelbaum o"h, Killed in Car Accident in the US
By Tzvi Sofer

Three Williamsburg residents, Rav Avrohom Weiss zt"l, Rav Ze'ev Boruch Teitelbaum zt"l, and his wife Mrs. Feige Teitelbaum o"h, were laid to rest on Erev Shabbos following a frightful car accident Friday afternoon.

Bais Yaakov Summer Program Funded by US Donors
By T. Sofer

The Bais Yaakov summer activities in Israel are off to a great start. Following the success of last year's experimental program activities have been expanded to the other schools in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak and even to schools in chareidi population centers in other parts of the country.

CER Meets with the President of the European Commission
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Representatives of various religions met with the President of the European Commission (EC), Jose Manuel Barroso, in Brussels. Jewish leaders proposed that the EU take a bigger role in improving the education of children and young people.

Why is That Night Different from All Other Nights?
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Just like in every other Jewish home, there is a set of Mishnah Berurah on the shelves. Its pages are well- worn. After all, who doesn't devote some time each day to study halochoh lema'aseh?

Drastic Reduction in Hepatitis A in Israel
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

A special six-year study, recently published in Jama, the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that Hepatitis A infections have nearly been wiped out in Israel. In 1999 Israel became the first country in the world to offer vaccinations against the virus to all babies. Hepatitis A, spread by contact with feces, food and water, used to affect thousands of children in day care centers and kindergartens each year.


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