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Hebron Deal Still Snarled Volume 35, No. 40 Thursday, January 2,1997, Tevet 23, 5757 32 Pages Single Issue 750 Hebron deal still snarled JERUSALEM, (JTA) Israeli and Arafat has insisted on joint Israeli- Palestinian leaders appeared to be Palestinian patrols at the tomb. less optimistic this week about In Jerusalem, Israeli and Palestinian quickly resolving outstanding issues negotiating teams continued talks at the that have precluded an agreement Laromme-Hotel on civilian issues. Jamil Tariff, the head of the Palestinian negoti-. on Hebron. ating team on civilian affairs, said some Hopes for an agreement were raised understandings had been reached, but last week after Prime Minister Benjamin an accord still had to be drafted. Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority As the negotiations continued, ten­ leader Yasser Arafat met to discuss the sions remained high in Hebron, where redeployment of Israeli troops from about 450 Jewish settlers live among most of'the West Bank town. But an ac­ 130,000 Palestinians. cord on the redeployment and the trans­ Police were investigating an unex­ fer of Hebron to Palestinian self-rule was plained explosion Sunday near the Avra- not expected before the return to the re­ ham Aveini complex in the Jewish quar­ gion of U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis ter. No one was injured and there was no Ross, whose mediation efforts-had re-en­ damage. Later in the day, a car belong­ ergized the Hebron talks. ing to a Palestinian official was set on Earlier, Arafat was quoted as telling fire at the site of the blast. Egyptian leaders in Cairo that difficult is­ In another development, classes re­ sues remained unresolved, including Is­ ISRAELI Army officer smells the hand of sumed Saturday at the Islamic Universi­ SETTLER struggles with Israeli police raeli pursuit of suspected terrorists into a Palestinian for traces of gasoline after ty in Hebron. Israel had closed the cam­ as he is arrested Dec. 25 during scuf­ self-rule areas, buffer zones around He- Molotov cocktails were hurled at an pus 10 months ago, after a series of fles that broke out when settlers tried bron's Jewish quarter and a timetable army roadblock hi the center of Hebron. suicide bombings. Security forces had to take over two houses in the Arab for the permanent-status negotiations A signed agreement on the Israeli pull- suspected that Islamic militants were ac­ sector of Hebron. Police arrested 20 that are expected to resume after a He­ out is considered imminent, despite tive around the campus. settlers in the takeover attempt next to bron deal is concluded. some glitches. (RNS Photo/Reuters.) The Israel Defense Force spokesman the Avraham Aveinu enclave. (RNS Meanwhile, Netanyahu declared Sun­ said the army agreed on reopening the Photo/Reuters.) day that the Jewish state alone would that is sacred to both Jews and Muslims school after receiving commitments continue to maintain security at the and' is at the center of the struggle over from the university's administration to Tomb of the Patriarchs, the holy site Hebron. maintain order. Lyon welcomes tasters, tourists Final in a Three-Part Series By JOEL ROTEMAN, Executive Editor France is noted for fine dining and half to two hours. so that relatively few were present when understandably, Paris gets a lot of France is not free, incidentally, of anti- the bomb exploded. Still, 14 were in­ food raves. But for legendary dining, Jewish terrorists, either from the ex­ jured and one man lost his arm. No one Lyon, France's third largest city, is treme right wing or from Muslim radical was apprehended for the terrorist act. the place to visit. Located between fundamentalists. During a visit to the About 1,000 youngsters attend Lyon's two rivers, the Rhone and the Saone, the Neveh Chalom Synagogue and Talmud two Day Schools. 2,000 year-old city enjoys the influences Torah, the journalists were informed by Neveh Chalom, incidentally, has a re­ of the nearby Beaujolais vineyards and Rabbi David Cohen (formerly of the ally impressive mikveh, ritual bath. It is -the Roman flavors of Provence. Mikveh Israel synagogue in Philadel­ quite modern and very attractive, in­ phia) that a slain terrorist was found to dicative of the active Jewish life in Lyon. There are a dozen restaurants there have written plans to destroy the syna­ Also indicative of that Jewish life was a with starred rating in the Michelin Guide gogue. Now, Neveh Chalom has police liturgical concert performed at the and five three-starred eating places in protection. Grande Synagogue, with Cantor Yehuda the region. The "France for the Jewish At another synagogue school, an un­ Berdugo and the Ensemble Philarmonia. Traveler" group, representing the Jew­ known terrorist planted a bomb timed The synagogue was packed with mem­ ish press in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, to go off as the parents would be arriv­ bers from all .walks of the Lyon Jewish MASKED Hamas activist burns a Star of Chicago and New York dined at three of ing to bring their children home. Fortu- v community. pavid during a Hamas rally at Islamic the city's four notable kosher restau­ nately, a cloudburst delayed everyone, (Continued on Page 27, Col. 3.) University in Gaza, as Arafat met with rants and a couple of non-kosher ones. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the The fare ranged from good to superior. Erez checkpoint. (RNS Photo/Reuters.) Lyon has a viable Jewish community of over 35,000, with more than 20 syna­ gogues, 15 kosher butcher shops, 13 Tal­ An Insiders Look mud Torahs, several day schools and kosher restaurants. FINALLY, A season for signing, Ed- A moving site for Jewish visitors is 'torial, Page 8. the Centre d'Histoire de la Resistance et de la Deportation (Museum of the «ADL's Top Ten, Page 8. History of Resistance and Deporta­ tion), a photo and audio center for the * LAST chance to nail Brunner, By Holocaust and French resistance to JayBushinsky, Page 9. the Nazis. The audio headphones are activated by stops along the way, be­ ° 'WHYS' Israeli in Paris, By Joel fore specific photo exhibitions. It K°teman,Pagell. takes a few minutes to get used to the dialogue which matches up with the "THIS can't really be good for me, photos on the wall. If you backtrack, ljy Richard Amster, Page 12. the audio goes out. 'fhe final stop in the museum goes .' 'PATH of the Baal Shem Tov,' Re- through a typical living space in a Nazi VlewedBy LenEstrin,Page22. camp. All that is missing are the cries, FOURVIERE, the station atop the funicula or cable car, provides a breath-taking the groans, and the scampering of rats. view of Lyon, across the old quarter, over the downtown center between the Saone A visit here is an important hour and a and Rhone Rivers and beyond the Rhone to the city's expansion across the plains. 2-The Jewish Chronicle, Thursday, January 2, 1997 -ISRAEL Bank of Israel Arab MK announces lowers interest rates run for Prime Minister JERUSALEM (JTA)—The it would continue its strict Bank of Israel announced monetary policy to help JERUSALEM (JTA)— Beshara, a lecturer Of that it would lower its in­ the government What do Benjamin Ne- philosophy at Bir Zeit Uni­ reach its' tanyahu, terest rates by 0.5% for target rate of annual infla­ Ehud Barak and versity in the West Bank January. tion: 1% to 10%. Azmi Beshara have in won a Knesset seat In May The bank also said that Including common? as a member of Hadash the latest cut, All three the interest rate will drop have declared the Democratic Front for that they intend to run for Peace and Equality. to 14.7%, the lowest rate prime in the past nine months. minister in the next 10 Yemenite An Israeli election. additional cut in in­ The intentions Kurd, PFLP terest -rates may come in of Prime graves exhumed January Minister Netanyahu and if the Knesset ap­ Barak, a coordination proves the 1997 budget as Labor Party Knes­ by Israel part of the Economics set member and former Arrangements Law. foreign minister, are al­ frets Israel BENDING spoons is Uri Geller. He was in Israel to launch ready well known. JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is­ A marathon debate ''his new magazine, "Encounters," devoted to the paranor­ JERUSALEM raeli But Beshara who? (JTA)—Is. forensics experts began last week on the mal. Geller is known for his ability to bend spoons, which raeli officials have ex­ have exhumed 10 graves bill, which details govern­ Beshara, an Arab mem­ he demonstrated before a flock of newsmen. (Isranet.) ber of Knesset, said this pressed concern about believed to contain the ment spending for the the possibility bodies of week that he had little of coordi­ Yemenite chil­ next year. nated attacks by Palestin­ dren who died during the The chance of winning. But he Knesset Finance said ian terrorists and Kurdish 1950s. Committee approved a his candidacy would Jordan's Jerusalem call advance the interests of rebels against Israeli tar­ The remains were trans­ version of the bill that gets in Turkey. ferred to a pathological in­ does not include reduc­ Israel's Arab citizens. stitute A third candidate for Members of the Kurdish for genetic testing. tions in child allowances is denied by Israel underground and the Pop­ Officials overseeing the for middle and upper-in­ premier would force a runoff between the lead­ ular Front for the Libera­ operation in the Segula come families, a's the gov­ JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is­ Nor had the king sent a tion of Palestine recently cemetery in Petach Tik- ernment had originally ers of Labor and Likud, rael denied this week that specific letter on the mat­ Beshara said.
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