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Police Disrupt
Suicide Bomber

Jerusalem/JTA — Israeli police nabbed
a suicide bomber en route to Jerusalem.
A bus driver stopped Wednesday at a
military checkpoint on the outskirts of
the city and told police he had spotted
a suspicious-looking man on board,
according to a police spokesman.
"There was some sort of a struggle
on the bus," the spokesman said.
When the police took the suspicious
man off, they found an explosive belt
on his body. Experts called to the
scene safely defused the bomb.

More Israelis
Rely On Trains

Jerusalem/JTA — Increasing numbers
of Israelis are riding the rails. Some 1.5
million people traveled by train last
month, up 33 percent from January
2001, according to Israel Radio. The
greatest increase was on the Beersheba
route, which had twice as many passen-
gers as last year, the report said.

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Paris/JTA — Anti-Semitic vandals
defaced a statue in Paris honoring Alfred
Dreyfus. The vandals scrawled a Star of
David and wrote the words "Dirty Jew"
on the statue.
In a case that sparked a wave of anti-
Semitism in France, Dreyfus, a Jewish
captain in the French army, was falsely
convicted in 1894 of treason, publicly
degraded and sent to Devil's Island, a
penal colony in South America. He
served five years of a life sentence before
receiving a presidential pardon.

Fewer Refugees
Come To U.S.

New YorkJJTA — The number of
refugees the Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society brought to the United States
decreased by 2,000 people in 2001.
As a result of tightened U.S. immigra-
tion policy following the Sept.11 terror-
ist attacks, HIAS helped 4,994 refugees
in 2001, as opposed to 6,903 in 2000.
After the post-Sept.11 moratorium
was lifted recently, processing of
refugees has begun again, but at a slow
pace, according to HIAS officials.

