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Settlements Expand
Jerusalem/JTA — Israel issued
requests for construction bids for
hundreds of new homes in two West
Bank settlements.
The tenders for 348 construction
plots in Ma'aleh Adumim and 342 in
Beitar Illit were published by the Israel
Lands Administration on Monday, the
biggest such expansion initiative since
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took
power in May.
Israel is obligated to freeze settle-
ment construction under the U.S.-
led "road map" for peace with the
Palestinians, but Olmert has vowed
that major settlement blocs will
remain in the Jewish state under any
final accord.
Irving Loses Appeal
Prague/JTA —Austria's Supreme
Court rejected an appeal by Holocaust
denier David Irving. A Vienna court
sentenced Irving, a British historian,
to three years in prison in February
for speeches he gave in 1.989 during
which he argued that the Holocaust
was exaggerated. He was arrested
in November when he returned to
Austria to give a lecture.
Austria has some of Europe's strict-
est punishments for Holocaust denial.
Irving pleaded guilty and said he
had erred in claiming that Auschwitz
had not had gas chambers.
Europeans Bar El Al
New York/JTA —Several European
nations are barring El Al planes carry-
ing arms from landing and refueling
on their way to Israel.
The decision made by England,
Germany, Portugal, Spain and Italy
will require Israel to significantly cut
down the size of arms shipments.
Israel Official Loses Job
Jerusalem/JTA — The deputy mayor
of an Israeli city stepped down after
coming out against the Lebanon war.
Walid Hamis, an Israeli Arab, hand-
ed his resignation to Haifa's mayor,
Yona Yahav, on Monday upon learning
that the municipal council planned
to fire him to protest comments con-
strued as supporting Hezbollah.
"You damaged the trust and the
friendly, neighborly relations that
have been at the core of this city for
decades; you acted out of narrow,
personal and partisan interests. You
helped a murderous and criminal
enemy during war;' Mayor Yahav,
whose city suffered hundreds of
Hezbollah rocket strikes during the
34-day war, wrote to Hamis.
Hamis said his views were against
the war rather than in favor of the
Lebanese militia, and were shared by
many Israeli Jews.
Shin Bet Seeks Experts
Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's domestic
spy service launched a recruitment
drive for high-tech experts.
The Shin Bet went public Tuesday
with a call for computer programmers
and specialists to join its counter-ter-
rorism and counter-espionage mis-
sions in Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Salaries and terms would
be attractive enough to compete with
Israel's lucrative, private high-tech
market, the agency said.
"If you thought the only way to
fight terrorists was through interroga-
tions in Arabic, think again:' read an
ad posted on the agency's Web site.
"Today, more and more preventive
operations are carried out using the
language of computing."
On Monday, Israel's deputy prime
minister, Shimon Peres, urged Israel's
security services to press ahead with
technological innovation, "perhaps
even on a type of intelligence hitherto
unknown, grounded in revolution-
ary nanotechnology." Peres wrote in
Britain's Guardian newspaper, "A ter-
rorist might be deterred by the knowl-
edge that new surveillance tools have
been developed that could identify
him, even in a large crowd; that his
weapon could be detected without his
knowledge."
Pearl Shares Prize
Los Angeles/JTA — Judea Pearl
is sharing a $100,000 prize with a
Muslim man for their campaign
against intolerance and terrorism.
Pearl and Akbar Ahmed are among
five recipients of the newly established
Purpose Prize, awarded to Americans
age 60 or older who are addressing
long-standing social problems.
Pearl, 69, an authority on artificial
intelligence at UCLA, is the father of
Wall Street JoUrnal reporter Daniel
Pearl, who was murdered by Islamic
extremists in Pakistan in 2002. In
response to the tragedy, Pearl and his
wife, Ruth, established a foundation in
their son's name to further cross-cul-
tural understanding.
Ahmed, 63, holds an Islamic stud-
ies chair at American University in
Washington. Over the past two years,
the two scholars have appeared before
Jewish, Muslim and Christian audi-
ences in the United States and over-
seas in discussions on the Middle East
and Jewish-Muslim relations.