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Do wanted men hold top Palestinian jobs?

by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Many of the terrorists on Israel's wanted list are presently serving in the Palestinian security forces, some, When Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, Health Minister Yehoshua Matza and Transport Minister Shaul Yahalom asked Ayalon the whereab

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Shin Bet is Israel's domestic counterintelligence agency.

At the same meeting, the cabinet rescinded a pre-election decision to grant benefits to World War II veterans. Finance Minister Meir Sheetrit argued against the original pledge, which granted benefits regardless of physical and financial status.

The Treasury and Absorption ministries will now set criteria for qualification. This will save tens of millions of shekels a year, according to Sheetrit.

Opposition Knesset members, however, attacked the process as a cynical election pledge, which was overturned at the first possible opportunity.


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