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News in Brief Police say a human bone found by Israelis touring the Golan Heights a few days ago does not belong to any of the three missing persons from the region: Gai Hever, Dana Bennett or Majdi Halabi. The leg bone was found near ruined stone houses between the Customs House and Nashut junctions in the southern Golan, and was reported to the police yesterday. The bone was taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for examination. About a month ago, parts a human skeleton was found by soldiers near Gesher Arik in the southern Golan. These remains were also determined not to be those of the three missing persons. (Eli Ashkenazi) Police yesterday arrested two young men from Umm al-Fahm on suspicion of murdering 17-year-old Islam Omar Agbariyeh Sunday night. The suspects, in their 20s, are to be arraigned in the Nazareth Magistrate's Court today. Agbariyeh was shot while sitting in a car with his two brothers, 21 and 24, who were injured. Police think a long-standing family feud between the suspects and the victims is behind the shooting. One of the suspects was shot in the leg a few months ago and was believed to be seeking revenge. "The numbers of shootings in Umm al-Fahm have become "intolerable," residents said yesterday. (Eli Ashkenazi) Advertisement The High Court of Justice yesterday rejected journalist Yoav Yitzhak's petition to obligate the attorney general to declare Prime Minister Ehud Olmert temporarily incapacitated, and to order Olmert to make himself available for continuous interrogation in the graft investigations against him. But justices Eliezer Rivlin, Asher Grunis, and Yoram Danziger qualified their ruling by saying that if Olmert's conduct makes it impossible to conduct the interrogations in a worthy manner, there may be room for Menachem Mazuz to declare the prime minister temporarily incapacitated. (Tomer Zarchin) A 78-year-old man was beaten Sunday by a store owner in Tel Aviv's Hatikva market, after a cashier demanded he pay for a bottle of alcohol he said he had purchased elsewhere. The store owner, 23, from Jerusalem, was arrested. When the man came to the store's cashier with his items, the cashier did not believe the man had come in with the bottle. In the ensuing argument the store owner allegedly knocked the elderly man down, kicked him and tried to throw a shopping cart at him. The man was bruised but did not need medical care. Other shoppers called the police. The store owner said he struck the man after he insulted him. (Roni Singer-Heruti) Cafe owner indicted for striking employee The owner of a Kiryat Shmona coffee shop was indicted yesterday in the Nazareth District Court for striking an employee who demanded his wages. According to the indictment, about 10 days ago the employee came to the cafe to demand his wages from the owner, Charlie Peretz. Peretz cursed him, told him to leave, and also said: "I'll kill you, you don't know who you're dealing with." Peretz also allegedly hit the complainant in the face with a skillet, and stabbed him in the hand after he fell, severing a tendon. The complainant, who is still in the hospital, also suffered a broken nose and an eye injury. (Eli Ashkenazi) Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard filed a lawsuit yesterday in the Tel Aviv District Court against the State of Israel, asking the court to declare that he and his wife, Esther, have not received any financial aid from the state from the day he was arrested. Pollard, who has been jailed in the United States since 1985 for spying on Israel's behalf, claims that Israel falsely maintains it has helped the couple financially from the day of Pollard's arrest until now. Pollard stresses that he does not want financial support from Israel, but rather for the state to work for his release. (Ofra Edelman) A dismantled artillery shell was found in the Jordan River by divers on Sunday, under a bridge near the Upper Galilee kibbutzim Sde Nehemiah and Amir. "People come to the Jordan to look for all kinds of things in the water," said Ofer Sivan, in charge of boating on the Jordan for the regional council. "It's unbelievable what kinds of things fall in when people are boating." Sivan also said the area was immediately closed off, and the army was called in to remove the shell. Since the shell was missing its detonator and explosive charge, it was determined not to have been fired at the area, but rather that it fell into the water. (Eli Ashkenazi) The number of organ transplants in Israel has increased dramatically since the beginning of this year, the National Transplant Center said yesterday. Over the past seven months 146 organ transplants were performed, compared with 90 in the same period last year. The number of organs transplanted reached 173, compared with 98 a year earlier. Several operations involved transplantation of multiple organs in a single patient. Transplant coordinators at hospitals who approached families about donating the organs of deceased loved ones received their consent in more than 50 percent of cases. (Yuval Azoulay) Human error was apparently the reason a 4-year-old was left behind at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday when her parents flew to Paris, Haaretz learned yesterday. The ground crew person, one of El Al's most veteran staff people, was apparently rushing to ensure that the flight on Sun D'Or, an El Al subsidiary, left on time. She therefore did not count boarding cards when the parents and four other children arrived at the departure gate 20 minutes late. The Israel Airport Authority, which called the incident "very bad," told Haaretz that a plane should not take off if a passenger is missing without that passenger's baggage being removed from the plane. (Zohar Blumenkrantz) Bookmark to del.icio.us   New bestsellers Three children's books about the US presidential race to be published soon. False accusation Pentagon admits it wrongly accused Jewish army engineer of spying for Israel.

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