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News in Brief Former Shas MK Shlomo Benizri appealed to the High Court of Justice yesterday against his conviction in the Jerusalem District Court, which found him guilty of accepting bribes and sentenced him to 18 months in jail. The court also sentenced him to an eight-month suspended sentence and a fine of NIS 80,000. The court found Benizri, as labor minister, accepted money and other illegal benefits from Moshe Sela. Benizri's defense intends to question the credibility of Sela, since he turned state witness against the former Shas MK. (Tomer Zarchin) Seven people received the organs of two people killed in road accidents this week. The lungs, kidneys, heart and pancreas of a French soldier were transplanted into four patients. The soldier, 21, was serving on a ship anchored in the Haifa port, and was run over while crossing a Haifa street on Friday. He was hospitalized in critical condition at the city's Rambam hospital, where he died two days later. The soldier's parents decided to donate his organs. In southern Israel, the heart, liver and one kidney of a 2-year-old girl were transplanted into three sick children. (Yuval Azoulay) Advertisement The police released the last suspect in the Ein Gedi rape case from custody on Wednesday. Dan Lahav was the last suspect to remain behind bars. Two months ago, two female tourists complained that three members of Kibbutz Ein Gedi had raped them. Two of the suspects, Roi Roditi and Ben Aber, were accused of raping one of the tourists, but were released for lack of evidence. Lahav had been charged with raping one of the tourists, but he maintained that it was consensual sex. The State Prosecution says that charges may still be brought against the three in the future. (Mijal Grinberg) Former Safed mayor Oded Hameiri was sentenced to six months of community service yesterday after being convicted of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. Magistrate's Court Judge Carmela Rothfeld-Haft ruled, however, that Hameiri's offenses did not involve moral turpitude. Hameiri, currently a city councillor for the Likud, was charged with exploiting his position as mayor and head of Safed's planning and construction committee in 2000-2002 to advance an absorption center on a site owned by a contractor friend of his. The construction was carried out by a company formerly owned by the mayor and later passed on to his brother. Hameiri did not disclose his personal interests and involvement in the project. Hameiri's attorney Avigdor Feldman said the indictment was "almost offense free." Since Hameiri gave nothing for the bribes he admittedly received, "no bribery was involved," he argued. (Eli Ashkenazi) The 10th Gay Pride Parade will be held today in Tel Aviv, alongside dozens of other similar events throughout the world, to celebrate the gay community's struggle for equality. The Tel Aviv Municipality has contributed NIS 250,000 for the event. The events will commence at 12 P.M. at Gan Meir, where Mayor Ron Huldai will address the participants, and there will be a series of music and art performances. The parade will then head out from Gan Meir toward Bograshov Street, turning on to Ben Yehuda Street, then Ben Gurion Boulevard, and ending at Gordon Beach. At midnight there will be a large pride party at the club Ha'oman 17 in Tel Aviv.(Yigal Hai) In honor of Israel's 60th birthday, a Canadian Aboriginal Christian leader has founded a new solidarity organization with Israel, entitled World Indigenous Nations for Israel. Pastor Raymond Mclean of the first Nations Family Worship Centre launched the organization to galvanize support for the State of Israel. "No one in the aboriginal community has ever done this before. We will go from church to church, and I believe that within two years we can have 1 million people registered as members," he said. (Rhonda Spivak) Vandals have defaced a memorial near Berlin that commemorates a death march of concentration camp prisoners through the Belower Forest, according to Guenter Morsch, director of Brandenburg memorials. Morsch announced yesterday that unidentified people had demolished a flower pot and the entrance door to the memorial. He said that someone also attempted to break a window at the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp overnight, but was unable to damage the security glass. One of the barracks in Sachsenhausen was destroyed in 1992 in an arson attack that has not yet been solved. (AP) Bookmark to del.icio.us   Terrorist donuts U.S. Arabs irate over criticism of celebrity cook's kaffiyeh. All the way to hell Rosner's blog: It's Obama's good intentions that pro-Israel activists fear.

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