Digest Gift Of The Grape Jerusalem/JTA — Eating grapes can reduce the risk of heart disease, Israeli researchers believe. According to a Rambam Hospital study published this month in the U.S.-based Journal of Nutrition after two years of research, grapes in powdered form, fed to mice who had been exposed to high levels of cholesterol, reduced their risk of heart attack by 50 percent compared to a control group. The grapes' salutary value was ascribed to skin anti-oxidants. Con Man Fights Deportation Toronto/JTA — An Israeli Arab who defrauded Muslims and Islamic organi- zations, including terrorist groups, is pleading with Canadian officials not to deport him to Israel because he fears for his life. Mohammed Mustaf Ag,bareia, a 39-year-old Nazareth native, is known as a career con artist who has been deported from Canada twice before. He is wanted by authorities in Michigan and New York and has been convicted of fraud in England. He lives near Toronto with his wife and teenage son and is fighting a third deportation order. Shabbat In Iran Tehran/JTA —An Israeli journalist visit- ed Iran. Orly Azoulai of Yediot Achronot published an account Monday of a trip to the Islamic Republic, in what is believed to be a first for the Israeli press. She described spending Shabbat with the 30,000-member Jewish community of Tehran. "For 30 years, no Jew has come here from outside Iran," she quot- ed a worshiper at the 13th Street Synagogue as saying. A is r mg Israel's Critics TAKE AN EXTRA 25% OFF ALREADY-REDUCED PRICES AND SAVE AS MUCH AS 50% OFF ORIGINAL PRICES THROUGHOUT THE STORE. The Charge Palestinians look at Israel's inde- pendence declaration on May 14, 1948, as Al-Nakba — the tragedy, the beginning of deaths, injury, property destruction, loss of their homeland and the beginning of five decades of refugee status and state- lessness. The Answer Palestinians could instead be cele- brating more than five decades of an independent state if their leadership had accepted either the Peel Commission report of 1937 or the U.N. partition plan of 1947, both of which called for the creation of two states, one Jewish and one Arab in then British-ruled Palestine. — Allan Gale, Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit THE SOMERSET COLLECTION 248.643.3300 NEIMANMARCUS.COM Selected merchandise only. Savings off already-reduced ticket prices only. Interim markdowns may have been taken. No adjustments for prior Neiman Marcus' sales. Merchandise at Last Calf' Clearance Center stores not included. 6/23 2005