Ariel Sharon has called on religious leaders to make it easier to become a Jew to revive the immigration that provides a buffer to the burgeoning Arab population. The prime minister’s remarks follow a call by one of his own Cabinet for a ban on immigration by secular Jews.
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/ 26 November 2002
Israel’s Labour Party hauled itself back into the peace camp this week by electing a dovish former army general to lead it in the 2003 general election. An exit poll gave Amram Mitzna, the mayor of the coastal city of Haifa, 57% of the vote.
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/ 12 November 2002
The race to decide who will be Israel’s next prime minister will be decided long before the average voter gets near a ballot box next February. The opinion polls consistently put Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud Party ahead.
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/ 1 November 2002
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was seeking the backing of the far right to keep him in power this week after the Labour Party walked out of his national unity government and lifted the constraints on one of the most hardline prime ministers in the country’s history.
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/ 28 October 2002
Israel signalled this week that in deference to Washington’s campaign against Iraq it will hold back from its usual tough response after Monday’s suicide bombing that killed 14 people. But it swiftly made life harder for Palestinians with a ban on drilling for water.
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/ 11 October 2002
The former head of Israel’s intelligence service held secret talks with a senior Palestinian official six weeks ago in an attempt to curb the violence of the past two years. Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed that the meeting took place in Qatar, but each side saw it differently.
The US government has said it wants to see Robert Mugabe removed from power and that it is working with the Zimbabwean opposition to bring about a change of administration. A senior Bush administration official called Mugabe’s rule ”illegitimate and irrational”.
Rwanda’s ‘murderer in chief’ who is on trial has stayed away from the court hearing
A FURIOUS Yasser Arafat emerged on Wednesday from five weeks confined to his Ramallah compound denouncing Israel even as it withdrew its troops to the cheers of Palestinian fighters.
Former president Nelson Mandela is to write a second, and potentially more controversial, autobiography.