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Despite the pressure put on him by the Palestinians and the
Europeans, prime minister-elect Sharon is working hard to
bring the unruly realities into line on many fronts. Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-elect Ariel
Sharon have tentatively approved an agreement on conditions
for a national unity government. On Tuesday morning Likud
leaders were minimizing the differences and Labor leaders
insisted that there were still outstanding issues, but it
was clear that significant progress had been made. Beis Yisroel Miracle A great miracle occurred on Tu BeShevat in Jerusalem's Beis
Yisroel neighborhood, when a booby-trapped car exploded in
the heart of the neighborhood, only a few meters away from
the Mirrer yeshiva. Miraculously, only one person was
slightly hurt -- a sixty year-old-woman who suffered slight
injury to her forehead by glass fragments. Nine people
suffered from shock. At the end of last week former Governor of the Bank of
Israel Dr. Jacob Frenkel, 58, was appointed president of
Merrill Lynch International and one of four members of the
chairman's office in that company, which manages the world's
largest financial concern with over $1.7 trillion under
management.
The Chief Rabbinate Says: Graduates of the Joint
Conversion Ulpanim will be Recognized by Us The Jerusalem Report recently reported that the Chief
Rabbis have written a letter to Attorney General Eliakim
Rubinstein, confirming their promise that candidates who
graduate the Joint Conversion Institutes (which are operated
in conjunction with the Conservative and Reform) and who are
converted in the courts of Rabbi Chaim Druckman in Or Etzion
will be treated no differently than those converted in the
courts of the Chief Rabbinate. Ancient Bones Buried in Old Cemetery in Haifa At a massive levaya on erev Shabbos, parshas
Beshalach, bones that had been removed last week from
the Haifa graves of our ancients were brought to burial. The
Haifa chareidi rabbonim called upon the public to
participate in the burial following the archaeologists'
nefarious acts of grave desecration. Voting Results: Chareidim Choose Sharon All the Way Election results in chareidi neighborhoods and regions
throughout the country indicate that more than 80 percent of
eligible chareidi voters came to the polls to vote for the
candidate chosen by gedolei Yisroel. With the
counting of 99.9 percent of the actual votes, Ariel Sharon
won 62.3 percent of the vote, compared with 37.7 percent for
Ehud Barak, a lead of 24.6 percent.
25th Anniversary of Yad Sarah -- Tuesday 20 Shvat A series of events in honor of the 25th anniversary of the
Yad Sarah organization was launched this week under the
slogan of "Volunteering and Continuing." More than 1200
volunteers from 31 branches of the organization in Jerusalem
and its environs participated in the annual volunteers'
convention. Yad Eliezer Volunteers have Melave Malka On motzei Shabbos parshas Bo, hundreds of Yad Eliezer
nationwide volunteer coordinators assembled in the Tamir
Hall in Jerusalem for a melave malka. Despite the
stormy weather volunteers came from all over the country:
from Bnei Brak, Ashdod, Ofakim, Zichron Yaakov, Tzfas and
other places to participate in this heartening event. Barak Refused to Bentsch Hagomel In an extended interview, Gilad Sherr, head of Ehud Barak's
office and a member of the team negotiating with the
Palestinians for the Barak government, told of his
frustration during the exhausting and discouraging
negotiations with the Palestinians. During the course of the
interview, he also recounted an enthralling anecdote which
took place at the Camp David Summit, when Israel was almost
left without a prime minister.
With the overwhelming defeat of Ehud Barak, the "peace
process" begun at Oslo is completely over and a new era has
started in Israel and in Israel's relationship to the
world. We love to get your letters and comments, even in
handwriting, as this one came. We are happy to poke readers
out of lethargy to say what they feel, pro or against our
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