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News in Brief The Education Ministry has backtracked on a decision not to include Arabic language studies in the required secondary school core curriculum. Thus, Arabic will continue to be taught for three hours a week in grades 7 to 9. Education Ministry officials said the ministry had taken Arabic out of the core curriculum in an attempt to create a core curriculum the ultra-Orthodox system would support, but the latter rejected any compromise. The need to create the core curriculum arose following a Supreme Court ruling that secondary schools must teach a core curriculum to receive state funding. (Or Kashti) A drama teacher arrested Saturday night on charges of commiting indecent acts on an 18-year-old female student was remanded yesterday for a further two days by the Safed Magistrate's Court. Two incidents allegedly occured in which the suspect touched the student's chest, once last year and once a month ago. The student reported the incident to the police after discussions with welfare authorities in her community. The suspect's lawyer protested the remand because his client had a "clean past." However, Judge Ben Feiles said reasonable suspicion existed that the suspect had taken advantage of his position to commit the act. (Eli Ashkenazi) Advertisement A 27-year-old man was shot to death early yesterday morning outside his home in the village of Bu'ene near Carmiel. A large contingent of police entered the village after the shooting and two suspects, from the nearby village of Deir el-Assad, were arrested. Galilee region police spokesman Superintendent Eran Shaked said the murdered man, Basem Kasem Bakhri, was known to the police and the murder was the result of a falling out among criminals. The murder occured just 24 hours after two explosive charges were thrown in Deir el-Assad. Police say violent incidents are on the rise in the villages, while residents complain that the police are ineffectively dealing with crime. (Jack Khoury) The Water Authority and the Israeli Association for Water Resources have called an emergency meeting today to discuss immediate issues of water use. Hundreds of dunams of orchards have been cut down recently in the Golan Heights due to water cutbacks for the agricultural sector, including 140 dunams (approximately 47 acres) of apples yesterday. Water expert Professor Moshe Gophen, who will speak at the meeting, has called to reduce these cutbacks, rejecting warnings that lowering the level of Lake Kinneret to -215 meters below sea level will adversely affect water quality. (Eli Ashkenazi) Shas ministers were fuming yesterday over the cabinet's failure, ostensibly due to a technical glitch preventing the proposal from being delivered on time, to discuss the party's amendment barring the sale of chametz (leavened products) during Passover. The proposal was meant to circumvent a recent ruling by a Jerusalem court allowing stores and restaurants to sell chametz on Passover but not to display it in public. (Yair Ettinger and Mazal Mualem) The search in the swamps of Louisiana for an Israeli man killed in the United States five years ago is to resume tomorrow, after a two-day hiatus. The hunt for the body of Herzliya-born Ron Mesika, 22, who was selling jewelry in the U.S., is being conducted by Louisiana police and volunteers in a 50-square-meter area where Mesika's murderer said his body was located. (Yigal Hai) Bookmark to del.icio.us   Security.com Shin Bet is reaching out to English and Arabic worlds with new web sites. Obama's blunder As Penn. primary approaches, Clinton has latched on to 'values' remarks by Obama.

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