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12 Cheshvan 5763, Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
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Palestinians transport a seriously wounded youth on a stretcher to a Gaza hospital after he was wounded in clashes with the IDF. (AP)
Powell demands IDF clarify killing of Palestinian civilians during Gaza Strip clash
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
The Gaza terrorists shot, threw grenades, and fired an anti-tank rocket at IDF vehicles near an outpost on the outskirts of Rafah before the IDF responded.
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US envoy Burns won't meet Arafat during visit
By HERB KEINON
Sharon returns upbeat after US assurances
By JANINE ZACHARIA
(10:16) Top American general in Pakistan to meet with officials, observe joint military exercises
(10:09) Bomb found near Nahal Oz
(09:52) PM Sharon back in the country
(09:25) Shekel trades at NIS 4.74 against dollar
(09:20) Troops discover bomb near Kalkilya
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Sharon serenades Washington
By JANINE ZACHARIA
Staff at the Blair House, the guest residence where Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stayed this week during his visit, said they had never seen, or rather heard, anything like it a head of state leading his staff in song.
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Israelis at center of major astronomical discovery
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Weizmann Institute astrophysicists have managed to track a star, called S2, racing around a dark mass at the center of the Milky Way a pioneering achievement that offers additional support for the widely held view that the dark mass is a »supermassive« black hole.
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Ben-Eliezer aiming to finalize Hebron pullback
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer hopes to finalize plans early next week for the IDF pullout from the Palestinian-controlled area of Hebron, as part of the the »Judea First« stage of the »Bethlehem and Gaza First« understandings.
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Detainee heads terror cell from Ashkelon prison
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
A four-man Hamas cell from the village of Na'ameh near Ramallah received operational instructions from a Hamas detainee in Ashkelon Prison and planned to abduct soldiers and hold them, dead or alive, as bargaining chips for the release of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails.
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100 protesters removed from Gilad Farm
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Soldiers forcibly removed about 100 protesters camped overnight at the Gilad Farm illegal outpost early Thursday morning, despite pleas by Zar family, which owns the land, that the army be allowed to dismantle the site.
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Chirac: France ready to offer Wazzani dispute resolution
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
resident Jacques Chirac on Thursday offered France's help in mediating a water dispute that has sharpened tensions between Lebanon and Israel, and urged the two sides to exercise restraint.
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Sharansky: Transfer of funds to PA must come before cabinet
By HERB KEINON
Any decision to transfer further funds to the Palestinian Authority must first come to the cabinet for approval, Housing Minister Natan Sharansky wrote Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Thursday.
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