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Business in Brief As part of its strategy to diversify out of old technologies like snail mail, Israel Post is planning to offer customers direct advertising services - that's spam to you - via text message, fax and e-mail. The postal service has already issued a tender for what it hopes will be a new revenue stream. The target customers for the mass distribution service are businesses, which presumably will use them to inform and educate potential consumers of their goods and products. (Amitai Ziv) Fifteen years after being bitten by a Dalmatian, a woman has won NIS 1.7 million compensation from the dog's owner. Dvora Gugenheim, 28, and her parents were on a second (not coordinated) visit to a home for sale. The Dalmatian was in the garden. As they approached he rose onto his hind legs, placing his front paws above the gate. He seemed friendly and Gugenheim and her mother patted him. When the mother moved on, the girl continued to pat the dog, who suddenly bit her face and hand. She underwent eight cosmetic operations to rebuild her face and nose. The owner argued that they had trespassed, but the court ruled it had been his responsibility to prevent the animal's accesses to passers-by. (Nurit Roth) Advertisement About 600 passengers on the Israel-Lithuania flight route were stranded at either end of the route yesterday after the charter operator suspended flights to Israel as a result of the financial problems of its Israeli partner. Hundreds of Israelis are reported to be stuck in Vilna. The Israeli embassy in Vilvana has contacted the passengers supposed to return and has referred them to local travel agencies. A senior Transportation Ministry official in Israel said the Civil Aviation Authority holds guarantees, which may have to be exercised in order to compensate the would-be passengers. (Zohar Blumenkrantz and Irit Rosenblum) After several false starts, billionaire businesswoman Shari Arison has managed to repurchase the public's holdings in Salt Industries and delist the company. Her company Arzaf bought 6.1 million shares, or 15.4% of Salt's stock, for NIS 20 per share. It had owned 82.8%, and under the rules can force shareholders owning the outstanding 1.8% to sell. Altogether the move cost Arison NIS 140 million, which was NIS 32 million more than originally planned. She had to increase her offer by 29% after the tender sent Salt spiking by 33%. Salt Industries makes salt, as its name hints, and also owns a controlling interest in Bank Hapoalim. (Michael Rochvarger) Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his wife, Nili Priell, are putting their modest, 31st-floor, 350-square-meter apartment in Tel Aviv's Akirov Towers up for sale. If they get their NIS 40 million asking price, they will set a record for Tel Aviv high-rise homes, at over $100,000 per square meter. It will also net the couple a tidy profit: In late 2003 Barak bought the dig for just $2.3 million. Barak has drawn considerable fire for settling into the prestigious address - from which Priell ran the PR firm that made the headlines last week. (Raz Smolsky) Bookmark to del.icio.us   Swing Jews Jewish Democrats go hi-tech to fight anti-Obama 'hate mail.' Where's Rose? Missing girl's mother allegedly told husband to 'get rid of her.'

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