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Mount
Clemens — The Radomer
Mutual Aid Society will hold its annual
memorial service at 11:30 a.m. Sunday,
Sept. 15, at Chesed Shel Ernes (Hebrew
Memorial) Cemetery in Mount Clemens.
Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz of Adat
Shalom Synagogue will conduct the
service and Cantor Earl Berris of
Congregation B'nai Moshe will chant
the memorial prayers.
Members, friends and their children
are welcome. During the Holocaust,
about 30,000 Jews from Radom and
surrounding areas in Poland perished.
Groups Reject Call
To Halt Attacks
• Learn through hands on exhibits and magical crafts
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Aid Society
Plans Service
Jerusalem/JTA — Palestinian terror
groups rejected a call by the
Palestinian Authority interior minister
to end attacks on Israel.
In a series of interviews in recent
days, Abdel Razek Yehiyeh called on
Palestinians to choose nonviolent resist-
ance instead of violence. But the
Palestinian groups said they would not
halt their attacks as long as Israel con-
tinues killing Palestinians and the
"occupation" persists. Fourteen Pale-
stinians have been killed by Israeli army
fire in less than a week. The Palestinians
say all 14 were civilians. Israel acknowl-
edged that eight were unarmed.
Israel's Population
Nears 6.6 Million
Jerusalem/JTA — On the eve of the
Jewish New Year, the population of
Israel stands at close to 6.6 million.
According to figures recently released
by the Central Bureau of Statistics,
Israel's population was 6,592,000 at
the end of 2001, 2 percent higher than
the year before. Seventy-seven percent
of the population is Jewish, a half per-
cent drop from the previous year.
Rachel's Tomb
Joining Jerusalem?
Jerusalem/JTA — Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and Jerusalem
Mayor Ehud Olmert favor annexing
Rachel's Tomb to Jerusalem.
Under an Israel Defense Force plan,
the biblical site is slated to be included
inside a security barrier that will envel-
op Jerusalem, Hdaretz reported.
News Digest
Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer
hasn't given his approval to the plan.
Under the plan, a wall eight yards
high and several hundred yards long
would be built around the tomb com-
pound, connecting the area to
Jerusalem's municipal border, which is
about three-tenths of a mile away.
`Lost Tribe'
Now In Israel
Jerusalem/JTA — Ninety-five members
of an India tribe that claims to be a lost
tribe of ancient Israel arrived in Israel.
The Bnei Menashe, who live in
northeast India, claim they are descend-
ed from the biblical tribe of Menashe.
The contingent that arrived will
study Hebrew and Judaism before
undera b oinc, formal conversion to
Judaism. With the group's arrival, there
are 700 Bnei Menashe living in Israel.
IDF Chief Says
Conflict A 'Cancer'
Jerusalem/JTA — The conflict with
the Palestinians is a "cancer"' thatposes
an existential threat to Israel, Israel's
army chief of staff said.
In a wide-ranging interview with
Hdaretz, the Israel Defense Force's
new chief of staff, Moshe Ya'alon, said
Iraq poses less of a threat to Israel than
do the Palestinians.
Ya'alon also told the interviewer that
Palestinian Authority leader Yasser
Arafat's Fatah Party, the mainstream
movement in Palestinian society, does
not recognize Israel's right to exist and
is not interested in making peace.
Ya'alon criticized the "pathology" that
makes many Israelis always blame
their own side for hostilities.
LAX Shooting
Seen As Terrorism
Los Angeles/JTA — The FBI says it
has viewed the July 4 shooting attack
at the El Al ticket counter at Los
Angeles International Airport as a pos-
sible terrorist incident "from day one."
An FBI spokesman said that while the
agency refused to make this assessment
public after the shooting, which killed
two people, the focus within the agency
has always been on terrorism as a possi-
ble motive for the attack and remains so.
The FBI sent a letter to Rep. Eliot Engel,
D-N.Y, saying the case is being viewed
as an open "terrorism investigation."