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News in Brief Great Dane attacks boy and grandmother Advertisement A four-year-old boy and his grandmother were rushed to Nahariya Hospital yesterday after being attacked by a Great Dane. The boy, who came from Romania yesterday with his sister, mother and grandmother to spend Passover with their family in Maalot, was playing with the family's dog when it attacked him. The dog then attacked his grandmother, who tried to pull it off the boy. The boy sustained deep head cuts and suffered a severe trauma. His grandmother had cuts in her hand. Both were treated and vaccinated. (Jack Khoury) New group to organize in Atarot A new right-wing organization called the Israel Lands Fund intends to populate the land of the former moshav Atarot north of Jerusalem in a month. The moshav was evacuated on May 17, 1948, by order of the Haganna due to Jordanian attacks. Today Atarot is an industrial area and part of Jerusalem. The fund's leader, right-wing activist Arye King, says he has the land owners' authorization to seize 300 of the 1150 dunams it occupies. (Nadav Shragai) Mazuz declines case against Waqf Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided to suspend criminal proceedings against the Jerusalem Waqf, in the wake of a complaint lodged by some 150 people. The complainants accused the Waqf of causing repeated damage to the antiquities on the Temple Mount, and to the nation's heritage. Mazuz ruled that the offenses listed by the complainants were "forced," and that they tried to define them "artificially" as criminal offenses. He cited former chief justices who advised caution in enforcing the law on Temple Mount. (Nadav Shragai) Higher Ed. council official resigns The deputy chairman of the Council for Higher Education, Professor Yitzhak Gal-Nur, announced his resignation yesterday due to the crisis in the higher education system. Gal-Nur, a political science professor at the Hebrew University and researcher at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, was a former Civil Service commissioner. He was appointed to the Council for Higher Education a year ago by Education Minister Yuli Tamir. He told Tamir yesterday that he could not carry out the tasks he had undertaken, but agreed to her request to put off his resignation until May 1. (Ofri Ilani) 6 scholarships given at Braude College of Engineering Six scholarships of NIS 4,000 each were granted in the ORT Braude College of Engineering in Karmiel yesterday. The scholarships were given in memory of Ort Megadim graduate Nadav Balawa, a combatant of an elite commando who was killed in the Lebanon War. The parents, Elifaz and Tami Balawa and the college president, Dr. Shmarhyahu Rosner, founded a joint scholarship fund for college students in combat service. (Jack Khoury) Netanyahu compares Ahmadinejad to Hitler Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Adolf Hitler and Tehran's nuclear program with the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s. Netanyahu repeated Israeli charges that Iran seeks to acquire nuclear arms. Tehran says it is pursuing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, but has called for Israel to be obliterated .Speaking at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu said it differed from that of the Nazis in one vital respect. Whereas that regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons, he said, this regime is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict. (AP) Bookmark to del.icio.us   A gentleman's word Olmert tells Haaretz he knows Iran won't have nuclear capacity. Farewell to arms B'Tselem says IDF must ban wide-range shell that killed civilians in Gaza.

Read & React Report: Assad says Syria preparing for possible war with Israel Responses: 109 Zahar: Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up like Warsaw Ghetto Jews Responses: 95 Elite IDF troops kill Gaza militant, foiling infiltration Responses: 134 Shmuel Rosner: The only goal of Carter's work is to undermine Israel Responses: 158 More Headlines 00:07 Netanyahu: Abbas-Olmert peace deal will be invalid 00:24 Hanegbi: In light of recent violence IDF must retake Gaza 01:18 State Comptroller to summon PM to testify in Pollard inquiry 23:39 Carter calls Gaza blockade a 'crime and atrocity' 01:43 Newsweek pubishes annual '50 most influential U.S. rabbis' list 22:31 Rights group: IDF must ban shell that killed cameraman in Gaza 01:52 IDF troops do nothing as Hebron settlers threaten German MPs 18:05 Abbas says no peace with Israel unless all prisoners released 18:07 Zahar: Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up like Warsaw Ghetto Jews 20:48 Deputy FM Whbee: Israel racially discriminates against its citizens 18:36 12-year-old in critical condition after being buried alive 18:03 Clinton vows 'massive' U.S. retaliation if Iran attacks Israel Previous Editions Select Day 17 apr 16 apr 15 apr 14 apr 13 apr 11 apr 10 apr 09 apr 08 apr 07 apr 06 apr 04 apr

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