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Israel to Present Another New Economic Plan
by M Plaut and Yated Ne'eman Staf

The ink was hardly dry on the most recent economic plan when then Israeli government announced that it would present a new one in a month. However, the old plan refers to the current year, and the new plan applies mostly to the next fiscal year.

Bush Expected to Outline Mideast Vision; Awful Terrorist Bomb in Jerusalem
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

US President Bush is expected to outline his vision of what peace in the Middle East could look like in a speech on Tuesday or on Wednesday. According to press reports, United States recently gave Israel and Egypt the main points of its plan regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Israel's Tenth Largest City: Bnei Brak
by A. Cohen

With a population of 145,414--up 3 percent in two years--Bnei Brak is the tenth largest city in the country according to the Interior Ministry's current Population Registry.

An End of an Era in Relations Between Israel and Germany
by Y. Aharoni

For the last several decades Germany was known as Israel's most loyal friend in Europe and perhaps in the entire West because of its efforts to compensate Israel for the horrific deeds of the past. Since Israel's founding Germany supported it on the international front, supplied arms and provided reparations to its respective governments.

Chaim Leyeled Plans Camp in Switzerland for Young CF Patients
by A. Cohen

The Chaim Leyeled staff has been working around the clock to finalize logistical preparations for the organization's annual summer camp in Switzerland for children suffering from the lung disease known as CF. This year's camp will be held at the Post Hotel near Arosa, a crossroads town between St. Moritz and Chur.

U.S. Aguda Rejects Armed Citizen Patrols
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

In response to press reports of plans to organize armed citizen patrols of Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Agudath Israel of America issued the following statement:

Israeli Assimilation' is Eating Away at the Jewish Majority
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Every year on Israeli Independence Day the Central Bureau of Statistics publishes figures on the demography of the State -- the balance between Jews and non-Jews in Israel. This year the balance was 81 percent Jews and 19 percent non-Jews.

Responsa and Letters of the Netziv and HaRav Chaim Berlin
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The first volume of these responsa and letters called Teshuvos Nishmas Chaim was published recently.

Many hundreds of letters covering a variety of public and individual topics, halachic responsa, droshos, writings and articles by Maran the Netziv of Volozhin zt'l and his eldest son, HaRav Chaim Berlin zt'l, are included in the first in a new series of seforim.


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