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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Sharansky quitting politics
Natan Sharansky is quitting Israeli politics.
Sources close to the Soviet refusenik-turned-Likud lawmaker said Wednesday he would step down from the Knesset in coming days.
He is expected to take up a full-time position at the Shalem Center, a conservative Jerusalem think tank.
Sharansky was one of the best-known Jewish dissidents in the former Soviet Union.
Having spent many years in KGB custody, he was released in 1986 and moved to Israel.
He entered politics in 1996 with the new immigrant party Yisrael Ba’Aliyah, eventually serving as a Cabinet minister. He resigned from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government last year to protest the looming Gaza Strip withdrawal. That move coincided with the publication of his book “The Case for Democracy,” which was co-authored by Israeli diplomat Ron Dermer and drew praise from President Bush. Sharansky is widely expected to write a new book on geopolitics.
Israel group gets $2 million
An anonymous donor gave the New Israel Fund $2 million to expand its work in northern Israel.
NIF is targeting what it calls “invisible Israelis” — Arabs, Sephardi Jews and immigrants — as it helps residents of the North recover from this summer’s war against Hezbollah.
One of the consequences of the war “was an understanding that civil society has to be strengthened in the north of Israel,” the group said in a statement.
Peace Now head guards settlement
The head of Israel’s leading anti-settlement watchdog group is doing guard duty at a West Bank settlement.
Yediot Achronot carried pictures Wednesday of Yariv Oppenheimer, director of Peace Now, patrolling the settlement of Ateret.
He is on a three-week tour of duty with his army reserve unit.
Oppenheimer, 29, said one Ateret resident had circulated a petition for his removal, but that other settlers were friendlier.
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