Peres Centre Investigated by Norway’s Foreign Office

The Norwegian Foreign Office (UD) has started investigating the Peres Peace Centre in Israel, and into the way the centre has used Norwegian monitary contributions. It was the Peres Centre that awarded a peace prize...

Getting Your Stolen Car Back from PLO hands

It's not a simple thing to part from one's car, as anyone knows who's ever had to undergo this experience, whether through selling it for upgrading purposes or whether through traumatic circumstances: a lien,...

Is Europe Lost? A Traumatic Experience at the Council of Europe

"When the Jews warned the West," I told participants at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, "that the Nazis endangered the peace of the world, your fathers replied that the Nazis were indeed not...

Paula Finer Discusses the Tragedy of her Daughter, Now in a Permanent Vegetative State

Thanks to private support from many circles, Israel Resource News Agency has produced a pilot film for what will hopefully evolve into a full fledged documentary concerning the plight of victims of terror. The first...

Israel’s New Security Situation Following The Release of Arafat from his Compound

Arafat The Street Did Not Wait For Arafat Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 3) by Roni Shaked -- At 2:00 in the morning, Arafat faced the cameras, in his first press conference after the siege, and in...

1999: A Lucrative Year For Mr. Larsen and his Wife

They were also among the winners of the $100,000 International Activist Award, presented biannually by the Gleitsman Foundation. They shared the award with at least two other senior members of the Peres Center, Yossi...

Juul Can Expect Punishment

Foreign Minister January Petersen dismissed an appeal from a Center Party politician to treat Mona Juul's case leniently because it could weaken the UN's role in the Middle East. Juul is Norway's ambassador to...

Breach of Civil Service Act by Juul and Roed-Larsen

The Norwegian Department of Foreign Affairs (UD) is of the opinion that Norway's Ambassador to Israel, Mona Juul, and UN Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen contravened the Civil Service Act when they failed to inform the...

UN “Fact Finding” Team to Israel, April, 2002: Inquiry or Inquisition?

The UN fact-finding team investigating the events in the Jenin refugee camp was due to arrive in Israel on Sunday after a short delay, following two days of consultations between Israeli representatives and the...

The Powell Visit: Israeli Press Reportage of a Disaster

-- To the question of what repercussions the failure of Secretary of State Colin Powell's mediation mission will have, the Palestinians respond with a single word: a "catastrophe" Officials close to Sharon said: "True, it...