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No planes will land or take off in Israel after 1 P.M. today because of the Yom Kippur holiday, which begins this evening, the Israel Airports Authority said yesterday. It said 28,000 passengers are expected to pass through Israel's airports today, on 85 outgoing flights and 84 incoming ones. Ben-Gurion International Airport will reopen for arrivals at 9:30 P.M. tomorrow and for departures at 10:30 P.M. Yom Kippur is the only day of the year in which all the country's airports are closed and there is no domestic or international traffic in Israeli airspace. (Zohar Blumenkrantz)

Police should be deployed around Jewish towns on Yom Kippur to prevent Jews from stoning cars driven by Arabs, MK Abbas Zkoor (Ra'am-Ta'al) urged Public Security Minister Avi Dichter yesterday. Zkoor charged that for years, young Jews have gathered at city entrances on Yom Kippur and stoned passing Arab cars, endangering the lives of the passengers. "Despite numerous complaints filed in police stations, officers were not sent to disperse the racist gatherings," Zkoor said. He also asked Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar to condemn such behavior, which "surely contravenes the basic principles of the Jewish religion." (Nadav Shragai and Yoav Stern)
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Lawyers for a Palestinian who claims he was tortured in an Israeli jail are seeking a Dutch arrest warrant for former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon, a human rights activist said yesterday. The lawyers are appealing Dutch prosecutors' decision not to investigate Ayalon when he visited the Netherlands last May. Ayalon is a minister without portfolio and the former head of its Shin Bet security service, which is responsible for intelligence activities in the Palestinian territories. (AP)
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