Mideast Report

Friday, October 11, 2002 | by

JERUSALEM (JTA)—A professor with U.S. and Israeli citizenship is sharing this year's Nobel Prize for Economics.

Daniel Kahneman, 68, based at Princeton University, is sharing the roughly $1 million prize with professor Vernon Smith, 75, of George Mason University. They were given the award for their work using psychological research and laboratory experiments in economic analysis.

Last Monday, MIT professor H. Robert Horvitz and Sydney Brenner, founder of the Berkeley-based Molecular Sciences Institute who now divides his time between San Diego and Cambridge, were announced as two of three winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Report: Israeli judges targeted by terrorists

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Palestinian terror groups reportedly plan to kidnap and murder Israeli military court judges.

The judges are being targeted for assassination because they issue the orders to demolish terrorists' homes, according to Army Radio.

The plan was reported last Wednesday, as Israeli forces demolished the homes of two terrorists near the West Bank city of Nablus. In a related development, the Israeli

daily Ma'ariv reported that Hamas has created a hit

list of 100 Israeli military officers.

E.U.: Israel blocks aid to Palestinians

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The European Union called on Israel to give humanitarian groups full access to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The E.U. external relations commissioner, Chris Patten, accused Israel of turning back more than 20 humanitarian missions contracted by E.U. officials, according to Associated Press.

Patten also said the European Union will increase its support to the U.N. Relief Works Agency to $235 million over the next four years to help some 3.9 million Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza.

Foreign workers hide in Orthodox clothing

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Some illegal foreign workers in Jerusalem reportedly are dressing like fervently religious Jews to avoid arrest.

A Jerusalem police official said the disguises were discovered in businesses in fervently religious neighborhoods where the workers are employed, the Israeli daily Ma'ariv reported. The paper quoted a police official as saying that some of the workers even undergo circumcisions.