Last update - 02:26 04/12/2007
News in Brief II
The National Labor Court is scheduled to decide this morning whether to issue striking secondary school teachers with back-to-work orders after it receives a response from the teachers to the government's statement to the court, submitted on Sunday. In it, the state provided clarifications as to its willingness to grant teachers a pay hike to compensate them for wage erosion. (Or Kashti)
Palestinian militants, freed in past prisoner releases by Israel, were responsible for at least 30 terror attacks which claimed the lives of 177 Israelis, according to a study published yesterday by Almagor, an organization representing the victims of Palestinian terrorism. The report's publication came in response to yesterday's release of 429 Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons. According to the report, 6,912 militants were released between the years 1993 and 1999, and nearly 80 percent of them returned to terrorist activity. (Nadav Shragai)
Four Palestinian militants were killed yesterday in two separate incidents in the Gaza Strip involving IDF forces. In the early morning, an IDF infantry patrol killed three armed Palestinians near Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip. Near Saja'iye, on the outskirts of Gaza City, a tank fired a round against Palestinians shooting mortars at Israel. At least one militant, a Hamas member, was killed in the incident. (Yuval Azoulay)
The decision of former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz to cancel daily media briefings during the Second Lebanon War was a mistake, according to ex-IDF Spokeswoman Brigadier General Miri Regev. In her testimony to the Winograd Committee, which was released yesterday, Regev also said that the IDF should have embeded more reporters with fighting units. This would have given a better impression of the gains achieved, she said. (Yuval Azoulay)