News An eight-day-old boy loudly enters the covenant of Abraham. Pink bows and blessings at a baby naming. Confirmation, graduation, engagement, wedding, anniversary. Do you have a favorite picture from a recent family celebration? Please share it with us in our new CELEBRATE! supplement that will be published March 15. Please clearly label the photograph on the back with your name, address, daytime phone number and a brief description of the event and who is in the photo. Although we can't guarantee that all photographs will be published, we will make sure to return all. By Feb. 12, send your photos to CELEBRATE! The Jewish News 27676 Franklin Road Southfield, MI 48034 Army Disperses Village Rioters Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli Soldiers and clearing a road and build- soldiers fired rubber bullets residents clash ina security fence around and used tear gas to dis- near a West the nearby Jewish settle- perse rioting Palestinians Bank village. ment of Matan. The work continued af- near a road construction site ter the demonstrators were dis- in the West Bank. Two Palestinians were re- persed. Kalkilya came under Pales- portedly wounded. The incident occurred when tinian rule at the end of last year residents of the village Habla, as part of the redeployment of Is- south of Kalkilya, tried to pre- raeli forces in the West Bank. vent Israeli army bulldozers from Palestinian State Is 'A Dream' LANE KIMBALL TRUBEY Award-winning designs since 1968 goldsmith and platinum jeweller [810)_541 -2978 for more information or an appointment No flea market shill no Latique doorknobs, just the finest made-to-orderjelvethy in the Motor City. 116 Ask anybody. Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said Palestinian vows to cre- ate an independent state are "a dream." Mr. Peres' comments came after he met with Palestine Lib- eration Organization leader Yas- sir Arafat, who, speaking to Egyptian journalists earlier in Gaza, said a Palestinian state could come into being within a year and a half, if negotiations were conducted intensively. The two leaders, meeting at the Erez crossing along the Is- rael-Gaza border, discussed the results of Palestinian elections, a Palestinian demand for addi- tional prisoner releases and Is- rael's insistence that the Palestine National Covenant be amended. The meeting came a day after Mr. Arafat, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Gaza, said he would not com- mit himself to revokincr or amending those sections , covenant calling for the de- struction of Israel. Mr. Peres' meeting with Mr. Arafat was the first time the two leaders came face-to-face since the PLO leader won the presi- dency of the Palestinian Coun- cil on Saturday. After the elections, Mr. Peres said that he would permit all members of the Palestine Na- tional Council, even those op- posed to the peace accords and those with Jewish blood on their Shimon Peres counters Yasir Arafat's remarks. hands, to return to the West Bank and Gaza to participate in a meeting of the PNC in order to change the covenant. According to the peace ac- cords, the amendment of the charter must occur no later than two months after the inaugura- tion of the new Palestinian gov- ernment. All the 88 newly elected members of the Pales- tinian Council will become mem- bers of the PNC.