Plaintive E-Mail Outrages Israel.
All Amos Sahar had to say was "I'm scared -- I'm leaving" to clog an Israeli website and revive an old debate. Sahar posted a letter explaining why his apartment is for sale on YNet
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Kabul's last Jew shrugs off fear of persecution.
Sitting in the courtyard of he calls home, Afghan-born Zibollon Sementa calmly shrugs off the worldwide controversy that has erupted over the edict. THE only practising Jew left in Kabul seems unperturbed, detached even. Remarkably so, given that Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban has just ordered his Hindu neighbours to wear strips of yellow cloth on their shirts, so evocative of an oppressive period in his own people’s history
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Cyberwar Also Rages in Mideast.
As soon as Israeli hackers took down a Palestinian site, Palestinians started waging denial-of-service attacks on key Israeli government sites, in the bloodless part of the Mideast conflict.
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And he travelled to Bethlehem.
Professor Eleazar Sukenik was the first Israeli to see a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, through a security gate in divided Jerusalem as the war of 1947 broke out. Then he travelled to Bethlehem to see two scrolls, brought by an Arab dealer who had acquired them from a Bedouin shepherd. Sukenik's hands "shook as I started to unwrap one. I read a few sentences. It was written in beautiful Biblical Hebrew. The language was like that of the Psalms."
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