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told Ha'aretz that the agency had a "weak
payment ethic!'
The agency said it started looking to con-
tract with other airlines after El Al would not
agree to any special concessions for the new
olim [immigrants], including extra pieces of
luggage.
Bibi Defends Freeze
Jerusalem/JTA Right-wing activists
clashed with building inspectors and police
as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
defended the settlement construction freeze.
—
Israeli police on Sunday removed 100
right-wing activists, including local residents,
girls from a local religious high school and
city officials who had blocked roads near
the West Bank settlement of Kedumim to
prevent Civil Administration inspectors from
entering the community to issue stop-work
orders.
One demonstrator was arrested. The
inspectors entered the settlement through a
back entrance via a neighboring Palestinian
village, according to reports.
Early that morning, a house and two
ERKLEY
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personal excellence is achieved through a powerful community,
a true culture of caring, and extraordinary resources,
All Berkley schools are accredited by the North Central Association. Our
Early Childhood Education program is also NAEYC accredited, one of
only 8% of accredited centers in the nation.
We are mainly a district of neighborhood schools, although some of our
families exercise the option of attending schools outside their neighborhood
through our internal transfer program. They do this to take advantage of
specialized programs in other buildings, such as the Norup International
IB curriculum.
Norup International School is an IB World School offering both the Primary
Years Programme (PYP) for all students in Kindergarten-grade 5 and the
Middle Years Programme (MYP) for all students in
grades 6-8. Norup International is the only school
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• make deep connections between curriculum
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• take action through community service
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principled, knowledgeable, inquirers,
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Boxer Falls In Title Bout
London/JTA — American Jewish boxer
Dmitriy Salita was stopped 1:16 into his
World Boxing Association light-welterweight
championship bout.
Champion Amir Khan, a Muslim of
Pakistani descent, floored the unbeaten
Salita twice Saturday night before the referee
halted the match in Newcastle, England.
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Shalit Talks Hit Snag
Jerusalem/JTA Negotiations between
Hamas and Israel to release kidnapped
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have hit a signifi-
cant snag, according to news reports.
A senior Hamas source told the London-
based Arabic newspaper al Hayat last
Friday that a proposed deal to release Shalit
in exchange for Israeli-held Palestinian pris-
oners had hit three obstacles: Israel's refusal
to release 50 of the 450 prisoners requested
for release by Hamas; Israel's refusal to
include Israeli-Arab prisoners in the deal;
and Israel's insistence on deporting 130 of
the prisoners.
A German mediator has been relating
negotiation points between Gaza and Israel,
according to al-Hayat.
Hamas reportedly will not make a deal
without the release of 15 specific prisoners,
including West Bank Fatah leader Marwan
Barghouti; Ahmed Saadat, secretary-general
of the Popular Resistance for the Liberation
of Palestine; and 10 leaders of Hamas' mili-
tary wing, according to the Saudi Arabia
newspaper al Watan.
Shalit, now 23, was kidnapped in June
2006 by llamas operatives near the Gaza
border and has been held in Gaza ever since,
according to reports. In October, Hamas
released a video of a healthy-looking Shalit
holding up a Palestinian newspaper bearing
a September 2009 masthead.
Meanwhile, a llamas official told Israel
Radio Sunday that an al Hayat report say-
ing that French doctors had traveled to Gaza
last week to examine Shalit was false.
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Berkley High School offers 21 Advanced Placement (AP)
courses and ten Honors classes. A total of 222 stud-
ents took 413 advanced placement tests in 20 subj-
ects in 2009. The class of 2009 was also awarded
Berkley High
nearly $2.0 million in scholarships and financial
School offers 21
aid (includes only what was reported). Many
Advanced Placement
upper classmen dual enroll at one of the many
(AP) courses
colleges / com-'munity colleges in our area. In
and ten Honors
addition, approximately 42% of our upperclassman
classes.
attend classes at CASA (Center for Advanced Stud-
ies and the Arts), and OSTC (Oakland Schools
Technical Campus).
or call:
tractors were set on fire in a West Bank
Palestinian village near Nablus in an incident
that police believe was caused by extrem-
ists in response to the construction freeze,
according to reports. The Palestinian family
of 12, which is now homeless, filed a com-
plaint with the Civil Administration.
Netanyahu at the start of Sunday's weekly
Cabinet meeting said the decision to estab-
lish a 10-month freeze on construction in
West Bank settlements "has to do with the
heart of the homeland of the Jewish people.
It has to do with settlers, Israelis who are our
brothers; they are part of us and we are part
of them.
Netanyahu stressed that the freeze "is a
one-time and temporary decision, not a
freeze of unlimited and infinite duration:'
Salita, who sported a Star of David on his
trunks, also took a standing-eight count.
Salita, an Orthodox Jew, studies at a
Chabad yeshivah in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Salita, 27, came in as a heavy underdog
despite a 30-0-1 record and being the No. 1
contender for the crown. He was knocked
down 10 seconds into the fight, took the
eight count after another shot, then was sent
to the canvas again before referee Luis Pabon
of Puerto Rico stepped in after 76 seconds.
Embassy Waiver Signed
Washington/JTA
President Obama
has extended a waiver for an additional
six months delaying the move of the U.S.
Embassy to Jerusalem.
It is the second time Obama has
extended the waiver during his term and
follows in the footsteps of predecessors
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who also
extended the waiver every six months
since the law was adopted in 1995 call-
ing for the move of the embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem.
Presidents are permitted to delay the
move on national security grounds.
Some Jewish groups have pushed for
the United States to move the embassy as
a way to bolster Israeli claims to the city.
Those favoring the use of the waiver say
that such a step would anger the Arab
world and put the United States in the
position of taking sides on an issue that
should be settled in peace talks.
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Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
During last month's annual (since
1977) two-day Israel-bashing event
at the United Nations — the "Day of
Solidarity with the Palestinian People"
— Palestinian representative Riyad
Mansour said Israel "continues to deny
the rights of the Palestinian people,
breaching international humanitarian
and human rights law."
The Answer
Israel's U.N. representative Dr. Gabriela
Shalev answered that Israel wants peace,
will talk peace anywhere and anytime
without pre-conditions, and will take
"painful and effective" steps toward that
end, such as the recently announced
settlement construction freeze.
- Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
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