What the police learnt
THE RECENT spate of knife attacks by terrorists in Jerusalem and Gaza are essentially “isolated incidents” says Police Minister Haim…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Courts & crime, 1987
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Bir Zeit teacher charged in court
The Bir Zeit University political science professor arrested during a confrontation between students and security forces on December 4, was…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Rappaport sentenced to 30 months in prison
Ira Rappaport, convicted a fortnight ago of belonging to a terrorist organization and of planting the bomb that crippled former Nablus…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →400 more police stationed in Jerusalem
A total ot 400 more regular police and Border Police are on duty in Jerusalem since the murder of yeshiva student Eliyahu Amedi in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman’s slayers are sentenced to life terms
TEL AVIV. – Hava Ya’ari and Aviva Granot were found guilty of murdering American tourist Mrs. Mela Melavsky and sentenced to life…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vatican protected priest in Nazi murder squad
The Vatican after World War II protected and promoted a priest who had been a member of a notorious Lithuanian murder squad during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High Court overrules rabbis
A rabbinical court bid to stop a married man from seeing his mistress was held up, at least temporarily, by a High Court of Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →COPS Police terrorise halfway house
SYDNEY: Two people were hospitalised following a dawn police raid at Glebe House, a halfway house for ex-prisoners,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Surfers shule $30,000 theft
SURFERS PARADISE: Burglars in the early hours of Friday morning broke into the Gold Coast Hebrew Congregation synagogue and stripped it of religious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →‘Why can’t Judy visit?’ Vanunu seeks court action
Modechai Vanunu, who is accused of revealing Israel’s nuclear arms secrets is keeping the courts busy. On Thursday he petitioned the…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Libel! As the Controversy Rages Over the Royal Court Theatre’s Production of “Perdition”, Which Was to Have Opened Last Week, Dr Stephen Roth Attacks Its Suggestion That Hungarian Zionists Collaborated with the Nazis in Their Bid to Establish a Jewish Homeland in Palestine
The Curzon cinema in Londonâs Mayfair has recently been showing âShoah,â that monumental documentary of the Holocaust in which only eyewitnesses speak â survivors,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BOOKS Sexual politics, murder and mayhem
A therapist is murdered, and so begins Gillian Slovo's second detective novel, Death by Analysis…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LAW Murphy's High Court judgments
SYDNEY: The Hon Neville Wran, as chairman of the Lionel Murphy Foundation, officiated at the launching of The Judgments of Justice Lionel Murphy at Parliament House last Friday. Published by Primavera Press, he collection documents 60 of Murphy's High Court judgements, including those on Lindy Chamberlain, the Franklin Dam, the Ananda Marga,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large ‘temporary’ hike in interest charged by banks
Interest rates, including those on bank overdrafts, rose by over 50 per cent at the end of last week following a surprise move by the Bank of Israel…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Historic Federal Law Court mezzuzah ritual
A mezzuzah was affixed to a Federal Court judge’s chambers last week in a ceremony believed to be unique in New South Wales legal history. The formal judicial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Workers Rights Fortress Wapping and Murdoch's police
Thirteen months ago this week, Rupert Murdoch arbitrarily sacked nearly six thousand printworkers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Spotlight Wetting Our Appetite Hydro-tourist Andy Court explores Israel’s water resources
FOR ALL the rain we have received this year and all that we may yet receive, the real nature of this country’s water problems concern far…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Extending police powers
Victorian Police Chief Commissioner, Mr Mick Miller's recent statements "praising the virtues" of the Neighborhood Watch…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Israeli family split as court orders son to stay
JERUSALEM: Twenty years ago, Jewish parents fearful that their offspring might fall victim to the temptations of assimilation packed them off to Israel…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lea Shakdiel goes to High Court
Lea Shakdiel, whose appointment to the Yeroham religious council has been held up for more than a year because she is a woman, last week…
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