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Carmel Fire Aftermath
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- In the wake of the
Carmel Forest fire, Israel's government
approved more than $223 million for
homefront emergency preparedness and
disasters.
Nearly $100,000 will be allocated to
establishing an upgraded national fire
service and an aerial firefighting force,
according to the bill approved on Jan 9.
The vote was 20-3 with one abstention.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai opposed the
bill, demanding a doubling of the budget
for fire services.

The bill also transferred responsibility
for Israel's fire services from the Interior
Ministry and local authorities to the
Public Security Ministry.
The Carmel fire broke out Dec. 2 and
took four days to get under control.
Forty-four people were killed in the
blaze, which burned 12,000 acres of land,
consumed 5 million trees, and destroyed
or severely damaged 250 homes.

Visiting Auschwitz
KRAKOW (JTA) -- The Auschwitz-
Birkenau death camp attracted a record

Arab Israeli Charged
FLINT (JTA) -- An Arab-Israeli suspect
in a series of killings and attacks in three
U.S. states has been bound over for three
murder trials in Michigan.
A Michigan judge on Jan. 11 ordered
Elias Abuelazam, 33, a Christian Arab
from Ramla, to be tried in a Flint court-
room for a third murder.
In addition to the three murder charg-
es, Abuelazam also is facing six assault
with intent to murder charges in the Flint
area as well as attempted murder charges
in Toledo, Ohio. He is a suspect as well in
several attacks in Leesburg, Va.
Abuelazam, who lived in the United
States for several years as a child and
reportedly was living legally in the United
States on a green card obtained when
he married a U.S. citizen, was arrested
Aug. 1 in Atlanta after boarding a flight
to Israel.
Nearly all of the attacks, which include
at least a dozen non-fatal stabbings and
five deaths, involved dark-skinned vic-
tims, either black or Latin American.

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Friday Night Live!

Iraqi American trumpeter, santur player, singer and
composer Amir ElSaffar joins the traditional music of his
Iraqi heritage with modern jazz.

Family Sunday

Storyteller Roan Judd presents the family performance
"Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds!"

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number of visitors in 2010.
Some 1.38 million people visited the
site in southern Poland, up from 1.3 mil-
lion in 2009, the Auschwitz memorial
museum announced on Jan. 12.
More than a half-million Poles visited
the site as well as 84,000 British citizens,
74,000 Italians, 68,000 Germans and
63,000 French nationals, according to a
statement released by the museum. About
59,000 Israeli visitors came to the site.
Some 850,000 of the visitors ranged
from schoolchildren to university stu-
dents.
About 1 million Jews were killed in
Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

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Bibi's Paycheck
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes
about $12,300 a month before taxes, he
informed the public on Facebook.
Netanyahu posted a copy of his
monthly pay slip on Jan. 10 on the Prime
Minister of Israel's page on the social
networking site.
The prime minister earns a gross sal-
ary of about $12,300 a month, but takes
home just $4,200 after taxes and other
deductions.
According to his pay slip, Netanyahu
is paid for a 42-hour workweek, which is
defined as full-time.
In his position as prime minister,
Netanyahu receives free housing, but
money is deducted from his salary for
his cell phone, transportation, four daily
newspapers and health insurance.
"Following online requests, the prime

minister has decided to provide total
transparency concerning his monthly
pay slip," read the status posted with the
image of the pay slip.
Netanyahu's salary is less than half
that of President Obama, who makes an
annual salary of $400,000.

Eichmann's Whereabouts
BERLIN (JTA) -- The notorious Nazi Adolf
Eichmann could have been caught sooner
if Germany's intelligence agency had
assisted, new information has revealed.
The German
Information Agency
knew as early as 1952
that Eichmann, a chief
organizer of the Nazi
genocide against the
Jews, was hiding in
Argentina under a false
name, the German
Adolf
tabloid Bild reported.
Eichmann
The information was
revealed after the
newspaper sued the agency to force the
release of all remaining documents on
Eichmann, who was captured by Israeli
agents in 1960.
After a trial in Israel, he was executed
in 1962 — the only person ever execut-
ed by the Jewish state.
"The revelations are very troubling
because they clearly show the Germans
never had any interest in bringing peo-
ple like that to justice," Efraim Zuroff,
head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's
Israel office, told JTA. "Today they are
making the effort, but with crimi-
nals who played a far lesser role than
Eichmann."
According to the documents viewed
by Bild reporters, the German secret
service received information in 1952
that Eichmann "is not in Egypt, but
is living under the name CLEMENS
in Argentina. The editor-in-chief of
the German newspaper Ter Weg' in
Argentina knows E.'s address."
In fact, Eichmann's fake name was
Klement. Not until 1958 did the German
secret service inform the CIA about
Eichmann having fled to Argentina. The
newspaper reported that virtually all
of several thousand microfilmed pages
about Eichmann were destroyed. Bild
sued for the right to see all the remain-
ing documents.
Historian Bettina Stangneth, whose
book about Eichmann is due to be pub-
lished in April, told Bild that she consid-
ered the file card "sensational. No one
knew until today that the West German
secret service knew of Eichmann's
whereabouts eight years before his
arrest."

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