Archive for September 5th, 2004

Compensation

Ha’aretz reports:

Palestinian authorities in the Gaza Strip promised Sunday to set up a mechanism to compensate homeless Palestinians, after masked gunmen briefly occupied the Palestinian governor’s office in the south Gaza town of Khan Yunis.
Another example of democracy at work in the PA controlled areas.
 
In any event, I was under the impression that such [...]

Scum of the Day

This post has a unifying theme – scum.
 
First up, we have news on Yitzchak Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir. Apparently, he got married.

The Prisons Service must “clean house” and look into how Yigal Amir, the convicted murderer of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, could have secretly married Larissa Trimbobler, Labor MK Eitan Cabel said Friday.  Family members said [...]

Teething Problems

Looks like someone might have a toothache (Reuters).
 

 
Any (good) dentist will tell you that the best way to extract the tooth would be with an Apache missile. 

Blogs Away! (21 Bloggers and a Coffee Place)

After threating to do it for some time, the English-speaking Israeli bloggers finally met up together Thursday night. And, it would be fair to say, that the evening was a hit.
 
For most of us, it was our first experience meeting up with fellow bloggers, many of whom write blogs that are the subject of our [...]