Pots & Kettles: after more than half a century of argument and violent conflict the Palestinians and the Israelis continue to hurl insults at each other. But while the ordinary citizens caught in the middle suffer, the leadership of neither of the two groups can claim to be blameless. Mel Frykberg reports from Jerusalem.
THE LEADERS OF the PLO who returned to the Israeli Occupied Territories after the Oslo accords were disparagingly referred to as the 'Thieves from Tunis' by the majority of poverty stricken and politically marginalised Palestinians who languish in the numerous refugee camps all over the Gaza Strip. ...

Metropolitan governing; Canadian cases, comparative lessons.
9789654932851 Metropolitan governing; Canadian cases, comparative lessons. Ed. by Eran Razin and Patrick J. Smith. The Hebrew Univ. Magnes Press 2006 316 pages $34.95 Paperback JL65 Canada has experienced a wave...

Church marks fourth Sunday of Lent today.
Byline: CHRISTINA I. HERMOSO The Catholic Church observes today the fourth or middle Sunday of Lent, traditionally celebrated as a "Sunday of joy," when the Church interrupts its Lenten gloom. The Holy Week starts on Palm Sunday, April 1, and ends on Easter Sunday, April...

Leading Researcher in Skeletal Tissue Engineering and Regeneration to Speak at the MaxCyte Lunch Briefing at the Phacilitate Cell and Gene Therapy Forum 2007.
'Genetically Engineered Stem Cells as a Platform for Skeletal Tissue Engineering' GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical stage therapeutic company and pioneer in clinical scale, non-viral cell loading systems, announces it will host a Lunch Briefing on January 22nd at the Phacilitate Cell...

Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world; studies in honor of Aharon Layish.
9789004154537 Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world; studies in honor of Aharon Layish. Ed. by Ron Shaham. BRILL 2007 263 pages $142.00 Hardcover Studies in Islamic law and society; v.28 ...

Y = Arctg X; the hyperbola of the world order.
9780761834991 Y = Arctg X; the hyperbola of the world order. Ostrovosky, Max. Univ. Press of America 2007 395 pages $49.00 Paperback JA66 The mathematical formula y = arctg x describes...

Outsider in the promised land; an Iraqi Jew in Israel.
9780292712881 Outsider in the promised land; an Iraqi Jew in Israel. Rejwan, Nissim. U. of Texas Press 2006 247 pages $24.95 Hardcover DS113 Rejwan (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) arrived in...

ARAB EUROPEAN RELATIONS - July 21 - Brown Offers Israel Reassurance On Iran.
PM Gordon Brown of Britain says that his country would remain at the forefront of efforts to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, directly addressing one of Israel's greatest fears. Speaking to the Knesset, or Israeli Parliament, in the first address there by any British PM, Brown said Iran...

Treatment for Parkinson's disease.
The FDA approved rasagiline (Azilect) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). Manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals (Jerusalem, Israel), the oral treatment is approved for use as initial monotherapy in early PD and as adjunct therapy to levodopa in moderate-to-advanced cases of the disease. Patients should not take the drug...

International Drug & Explosives Detection Firm IDenta Initiates Manufacturing Expansion - Forecasts Product Orders From Twenty Countries During 2007.
JERUSALEM, Israel, January 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDenta Corp. (OTC Pink Sheets: IDTA) announced today that it is preparing to make a significant investment to expand and enhance its product assembly line starting in early 2007. The company also released a list of countries, twenty in all, that it expects...