May the coming year be filled
with health, happiness and prosperity
for all our family and friends.
—Arlene & Douglas Pierce —
Karen, Matt, Ashley & Michael Fraiberg
Linda, Scott & Alexa Herron
May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
Benjamin Netahyahu speaks at a news conference after handing in
his resignation as Israel's finance minister Aug. 7, 2005.
bombers kill 52 people, including
three Jews, and wound more than
700 aboard three subway trains
and a double-decker bus.
Washington — Israel requests
aid from the United States,
believed to total $2.2 billion, to
support its Gaza withdrawal.
Gleneagles, Scotland —
Industrialized nations meeting at
the G8 summit in Scotland
pledge $3 billion in assistance to
the Palestinians.
Washington — Condoleezza
Rice visits the Middle East in an
effort to calm tensions following
several terror attacks in Israel.
Jerusalem — Israel hosts the
17th Maccabiah Games.
Washington — A U.S. federal
appeals court rejects Jonathan
Pollard's request for an appeal.
Washington — The U.S. House
of Representatives approves a
revised version of the USA
Patriot Act.
Washington — President Bush
nominates Richard Jones, a for-
mer ambassador to Kuwait and
Lebanon, as the U.S. ambassador
to Israel.
Buenos Aires — Argentine
President Nestor Kirchner admits
that previous governments cov-
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ered up facts that could have
helped solve the 1994 bombing of
the AMIA Jewish community
center, which killed 85 people.
Jerusalem — Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's son,
Knesset-member Omri Sharon, is
indicted on charges of illegally
financing his father's Likud Party
primary campaign.
Washington — Congress pass-
es a bill extending daylight-sav-
ing time by a month.
AUGUST 2005
Jerusalem — An AWOL Israeli
soldier kills four Arabs in a ter-
rorist attack on a bus in the
Israeli-Arab town of Shfaram.
Washington — Federal
charges are filed against two for-
mer employees of the American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee.
Jerusalem — Israeli Finance
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
resigns.
New York — The Presbyterian
Church (USA) says it may divest
from four companies —
Caterpillar, Motorola, ITT
Industries and United
Technologies — unless they stop
doing business with Israel. 0
May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!
— Ronnie Sinai, Terrie Troy and Manny Bordelove —
We wish our family & friends a very
healthy, happy and sweet New Year.
Gloria (Goldie) and Marvin Bookstein
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