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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Central Israel Criminals Organized: 25 mafia members arrested

"Police arrested early Monday morning 25 people in the central region suspected of membership in a crime organization whose activities allegedly included murder hits, extortion, money laundering, and drug trafficking.

Central Region Police Cmdr. Benny Kaniak stated that the organization, headed by the Ayat and Hariri families from Jaljulya, was one of the most violent in Israel. Kaniak told Army Radio that the crime organization, which was actually an umbrella organization comprised of both Arab and Jewish crime families from Jaljulya, Petah Tikva, Rosh Ha'ayin, and villages in the Sharon area, would force their way into "partnership" with local businesses by demanding protection money. Messengers would bring business owners increasingly threatening demands which, if not met, would result in the use of violence.

According to First Sgt.-Major Rotem Gil, head of the police investigation branch, the suspects also acquired the private debts of businesspeople from third parties and added a "processing fee" to the amount owed by the debtors, who in most cases were too intimidated to turn to the police. One of the members of the organization, who had been recruited as a police informer, revealed that contractors and businesspeople would not only turn to the organization's leaders for informal arbitration in disputes, but would also order attacks or hits.

Gil confirmed to Israel Radio that the families have operated for a number of years as a mafia in every respect. He estimated their financial gains at millions of shekels, which were deposited in secret bank accounts. A prominent business figure from Rishon Lezion was filmed asking the family heads to "neutralize" Globes reporter Yitzhak Danon, who had gotten too close for the comfort when he reported certain details of the man's business transactions, which allegedly included money laundering.

Danon asked Kaniak in the Army Radio interview whether the police had in fact obtained information on a hit ordered on him, and if so, why police hadn't notified him. Kaniak responded that the police didn't "believe there was any danger." According to police estimation, Kaniak continued, the threats did not appear likely to be carried out, and therefore the police saw no reason to involve anyone else. Danon stated that he had not sensed that he was in any danger and that he intended to continue as usual with his work as a journalist.

Kaniak expressed his hope that the successful bust would show the Israeli public the extent of the police's endeavors, beyond their ongoing fight against terror and recent involvement in the disengagement from Gaza."

Source: 25 crime organization members arrested. www.JPost.com (29 August 2005) [FullText]

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Rehovot-based XTL Biopharm Signs $35.5m. Licensing Agreement

XTL Biopharmaceuticals has signed a licensing agreement with US biotechnology company VivoQuest worth up to $35.5 million excluding royalty fees.

"The Rehovot-based company, which develops drugs to treat hepatitis, said on Monday that it will acquire the exclusive global rights to VivoQuest's intellectual property and technology, including its compounds for the treatment of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and its compound library.

XTL will pay an upfront license fee of $940,000 in ordinary shares and $34.6m. in milestone payments, which will be triggered by the achievement of certain regulatory and sales targets. This includes $25m. that will be paid following regulatory approval or product sales, for which XTL will also make royalty payments. In addition, XTL will pay $450,000 in ordinary shares to buy VivoQuest's laboratory equipment and other assets, and it will assume the US company's lease of its laboratory space. XTL expects the transactions to close in September.

The company said the licensing deal strengthens its HCV pipeline and broadens its small-molecule technology base. Chairman Michael Weiss said VivoQuest's lead program is an early stage program with much potential.

"(VivoQuest) has already identified a large number of candidates that compare favorably with the most promising anti-HCV compounds presently in clinical development," he said.

XTL appointed Weiss as non-executive chairman earlier this month. He had been interim chairman since March after rebel investors persuaded shareholders to oust interim chairman and chief executive Elkan Gamzu and two other directors in February.

XTL is due to list on the Nasdaq soon having registered its shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in July, making it the first company to dual-list in London and Israel."

Source: Yigal Grayeff. XTL signs $35.5m. licensing agreement (23 August 2005) [FullText]

Thursday, August 25, 2005

News Archive: Rehovot police resume search for woman

"Rehovot police have resumed their search for 49- year-old Shlomit Bleichman, who has been missing for three months.

The hunt was launched yesterday in the fruit orchards and fields in the Rehovot area, following testimony given by Bleichman's 12-year- old son Itai, who was found in Switzerland two weeks ago with his father, Amiram Hochberg, wanted in connection with the murder of Bleichman's mother ... "

Source: Raine Marcus. Rehovot police resume search for woman. Jerusalem Post (28 August 1996) [Search FullText]

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

eResponse feature of Israel National On-line Newspapers Suffers Abuse

"At first, there was something refreshing and amusing about the talkback. It was part of the Internet revolution in the news media. The talkback, the readers' response format that Yedioth Ahronoth and then Maariv started operating, seemed to be a sort of virtual Hyde Park - a celebration of democracy and freedom of speech. For who said all wisdom is concentrated among a handful of journalists or "individuals of note" to whom a newspaper allocates space, whether on paper or in cyberspace?

However, when Haaretz also opened such a response format, albeit mainly for opinion pieces, and the other sites' talkback formats fell into a generally uniform pattern at the same time, the trend became deeply troubling. It also seems to be straying from its worthy causes. It is not by chance that this format has not been adopted by any respectable newspaper in the world.

While the talkback appears to be open to anyone with access to a computer and modem, a few groups seem to have taken over a large part of the virtual space with the intention of influencing public opinion, or creating the false impression that public opinion is leaning toward a certain direction.

Channel 2 reported on Saturday night that almost all the advertising and public relations' agencies employ people who respond in favor of their clients and transmit hundreds of messages under different names and nicknames on every site. Thus, they create a sudden sequence of dozens of "spontaneous" responses for or against a certain figure, opinion, act or shortcoming. However, it is clear that these reactions lose their significance if they are published by professional responders.

The possibility to respond anonymously, or under a false name, or publish a large number of responses of a certain nature, attracts people who use the talkback as a venue for their aggression and personal, political or social frustrations. This trend fits in well with the growing verbal and physical violence in every sphere. Some responses are characterized by obscene language, verbal abuse and biased, manipulative information.

There is reasonable concern that at least some of the journalists are influenced by the talkbacks in a way that could induce them to write or select subjects in a way that would evoke as many responses as possible. After all, numerous responses would be an indication of the great interest their article aroused.

But these journalists do not realize that most of the attention is focused on the talkback itself and most responders do not refer to the article at all, but to the ongoing chats and curses among themselves. It is doubtful whether all of them even read the article to which they are responding.

This does not mean that there are no interesting, intelligent and even humorous and ironic responses on the talkbacks; but these are quite rare. I do not know what motivated Haaretz to adopt the talkback idea. I do not believe that it has boosted the paper's sales and its income from advertising. Perhaps the purpose was to provide a stage for exceptional opinions, or those that do not conform to the standard and are not reflected in the printed edition.

However, I do know already what the responses to this article are going to be, and which virtual figure will be making them."

Source: Baruch Kimmerling. The trouble with talkback. Haaretz.com (21 June 2005) [FullText]

Monday, August 22, 2005

Two Youths Set to Explode Rehovot

"Two youths, ages 17 and 19 from Rehovot were arrested early Sunday for trying to blow up a gas canister in Rehovot Friday morning. What could have become a disaster was narrowly averted when firefighters arrived on the scene and put out the fire, which would have caused a massive explosion, causing widespread injuries and probably deaths. The large canister supplies cooking gas to two adjacent apartment buildings, in which some 300 people live, Israel Radio reported.

Inciting material and weapons munitions were found during a police search of the suspect's residence. Police officials said that the incident was being treated as an attempted terrorist attack. The perpetrators had spray-painted anti-Sharon and anti-disengagement slogans on the premises

Meanwhile, in Sa-Nur in northern Samaria, five youths also resorted to attempted arson in their protests against the pullout from the Gaza Strip. The five targeted a Palestinian-owned gas station in the settlement.

Although they didn't manage to ignite it, they caused significant damage.

The gas station had been closed for three days by police order, out of fear that violence would erupt during the evacuation.

The Sa-Nur spokesman reported that the would-be arsonists were not from Sa-Nur. Residents of the settlement forced the youths to leave, telling them that anyone using such tactics was not welcome there."

Source: Two arrested for Rehovot bomb plot. JPost.com (21 August 2005) [FullText]

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Make peace, Not War. Disengagement: Rehovot Residents Viewpoint

"The sun shone high in the deep blue sky above Rehovot, a small city/town, part of the heavily populated, multi-municipal megalopolis surrounding Tel Aviv in the central Sharon Plain of Israel, where I spent last Shabbat. I was in the home of family.

He is 68 years old, born in Mandatory Palestine of parents who immigrated from Lebanon in 1933. His wife, also born in pre-State Israel, is of Yemeni background. They live in a quiet neighbourhood shared by Jews of all backgrounds and types, observant and non-observant, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, Hebrew speakers, English speakers, Russian speakers, Amharic speakers, friendly and non-friendly, short and tall. Their home, semi-detached with three bedrooms and a small private garden, is modest by Canadian standards but exceptional in Israel for its roominess and private gardening possibilities.

Two of his sisters and a brother-in-law from Poland, who came to Israel in 1948 after surviving Hitler’s maniacal efforts at killing him, drove from the Galilee to join us for lunch.

The table was set for a holiday. We feasted on more than a dozen typically Mediterranean, olive-oil-rich salads, six different kinds of cheeses, three different kinds of salty fish, three different kinds of bourekas, oven-baked hard-boiled eggs, jachnoun – the sweet, Yemenite layered dough cake eaten only on Shabbat – endless platefuls of parsley-topped hummus and challah.

We sat around the table and talked. The discussion, of course, was about the disengagement slated to begin some 48 hours later. But the terms “talked” and “discussion” hardly convey the nature of the interaction – I cannot call it a debate or conversation – that took place on that hot and sunny Shabbat.

Emotions were very close to the surface. There were as many opinions as there were people in the room, often expressed at the same time. And no one spoke below a shout.

“I will never trust [Prime Minister] Sharon again.”

“He had no choice.”

“No one pressured him. Even [U.S.] President [George W.] Bush said so yesterday [referring to an interview with an Israeli journalist that was broadcast on local television Friday]. It was Sharon’s own decision. No one forced him.”

“He had no choice. It is the only way to separate from the Arabs.”

“How can we trust the Arabs? Who speaks for them? Who controls them?”

“[Palestinian Authority President] Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] must defeat Hamas and the extremists.”

“Didn’t you hear, didn’t you read what Abu Mazen said? This is just the first step. Next is the West Bank and Jerusalem.”

“He can speak all he wants. It is up to Israel to agree.”

“Israel won’t agree? Where have you been living these past 10 years?”

“What will happen after they build the road that joins Gaza to Yehuda and Shomron? The country will be cut in half. We are in mortal danger. There will surely be another war.”

“We are already at war. That is why we must separate. We can’t continue this way. We must try another way.”

“Is this the correct other way?”

“Look how we are treating the settlers. We sent them there and now we are uprooting them from their homes and from their livelihoods.”

“The government is compensating them for loss of livelihood, for their homes, for the cost of moving. The government is trying to do the right thing.”

“This is the right thing? Jewish soldiers being trained to use force against other Jews?”..."

Source: Mordechai Ben-dat. Disengagement: the Israeli viewpoint. Canadian Jewish News - North York,ON,Canada (last viewed 18 August 2005) [FullText]

Monday, August 15, 2005

Rehovot Structural Biologists Published Article in Science Magazine

Leading Text: "Many organisms use a most unexpected strategy for forming large single crystals such as those that make up mineralized skeletal parts. Although nucleation and growth of a crystal occur from a solid disordered phase that has the characteristics of a melt phase, the process is accomplished at ambient temperatures and pressures. This strategy allows organisms to mold the crystals into unusual shapes and orient them at will..."

The authors are in the Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. E-mail: steve.weiner[at]weizmann.ac.il.

Source: Choosing the Crystallization Path Less Traveled. S. Weiner, I. Sagi, L. Addadi. Science Vol.309, Issue 5737, 1027-1028 (12 August 2005) doi: 10.1126/science.1114920 [FullText]

Thursday, August 11, 2005

News Archive: Two boys killed in Rehovot fire

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 -- Two five-year-old boys burned to death when the storage shed in which they were playing went up in flames at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday on Rehovot's Rehov Litani.

The 10-meter-high blaze was so great that firefighters arriving at the scene couldn't tell anyone was inside. After seven minutes spent putting out the conflagration, they ... "

Source: Hilary Leila Krieger, Amir Mizroch. Two boys killed in Rehovot fire. Jerusalem Post (11 August 1997) [Search FullText]

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Rehovot Scientists showed How AIDS HIV Disables The Cells' Call For Defense Help

"The HIV virus hides out in the very immune system cells that are meant to protect the body from viral infection. But how does it prevent these cells from mounting a full-scale attack against the invader? In research published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a team at the Weizmann Institute of Science has shown how a part of a protein on the virus' outer surface interferes with the cells' normal immune response. But their work may have wider implications: this molecular fragment, which has such a devastating effect in one disease, might turn out to be an effective treatment for other disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis.

In the initial stages of HIV infection, the protein coatings of the viruses fuse with the outer membranes of T cells -- immune system cells that recognize foreign invaders and alert other types of immune cell to come to the rescue. The genetic material of the virus, which is basically a strand of RNA, then forces the cell's DNA to make copies of it. Newly minted viruses created by the host DNA later break out of the cell membrane to infect other cells. Many believed that the very act of breaking into T cells and hijacking their DNA was enough to destroy the ability of these cells to call up immune support.

But Institute scientists Prof. Yechiel Shai of the Biological Chemistry Department, Prof. Irun Cohen of the Immunology Department and graduate students Francisco Quintana and Doron Gerber thought there must be more to the story. T cells identify invaders using receptors, like security antennae, on their outer walls. A virus, especially one with its own surface equipment for seeking out specific T cells, would be hard-pressed to slip past these receptors without raising the alarm. The scientists surmised that the virus must be able to actively disable some part of the immune cell's system.

They investigated a peptide fragment called FP (fusion peptide), a segment of the HIV protein gp41 found on the viral envelop. FP was known to play a role in the complex process in which the viral envelop fuses with the cell membrane in the initial stage of cell infection. The researchers suspected that FP, which is only exposed for a short period during this process, may have enough time to affect the immune response as well. Indeed, they found that FP locks on to several proteins on the cell walls that are involved in invoking a large-scale immune response, effectively shutting them down.

From their new understanding of how a tiny virus can gain control of the body's immune response, the scientists made an intuitive leap. In autoimmune diseases, the same T cells that play host to HIV viruses are overactive, mistakenly attacking the body's cells instead of foreign invaders. If the viruses use FPs to override the cells' call for help, could their actions, which block one type of immune response without killing the cell, be applied to these autoimmune diseases? To check their theory, the research team tested FP on rats suffering from an autoimmune syndrome similar to human rheumatoid arthritis, and on cultured human T cells. As they predicted, the rats treated with FP showed a significant reduction in joint swelling and other symptoms of arthritis.

Shai points out that using FP, a tiny piece of a piece of the HIV virus, would pose no danger to patients as it lacks any ability to either infect cells or to reproduce. Rather, as the scientists note in their paper, the study of a destructive virus may contain important lessons on how to regulate the immune system. "Perhaps," says Cohen, "we humans can adopt the virus peptide to better control overactive autoimmunity."

Prof. Irun Cohen's research is supported by the Minna James Heineman Stiftung; the Robert Koch Minerva Center for Research in Autoimmune Disease; and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Theodore Cohen, Chicago, IL. Prof. Cohen is the incumbent of the Helen and Morris Mauerberger Professorial Chair in Immunology. Prof. Yechiel Shai's research is supported by Robert Koch Minerva Center for Research in Autoimmune Disease; and the estate of Julius and Hanna Rosen. Prof. Shai is the incumbent of the Harold S. and Harriet B. Brady Professorial Chair in Cancer Research.

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,500 scientists, students, technicians and supporting staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.

Source: How HIV Disables The Cells' Call For Help (8 July 2005) Sciencedaily.com [
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

News Archive: High Court Delays Rehovot Yeshiva Complex

"The High Court of Justice yesterday ordered a yeshiva to temporarily halt construction on a disputed plot of land in Rehovot and ordered the municipality to explain why it decided to allocate the site to the yeshiva.

The injunction came in answer to a petition filed by the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) and Am Chofshi on behalf of the residents of Ramat Yigal, a secular neighborhood in Rehovot.

It is the second petition currently pending in the High Court between secular residents of Rehovot and haredim planning to build an activity ..."

Source: Dan Izenberg. High Court delays Rehovot yeshiva complex. Jerusalem Post (22 July 1999) [Search FullText]

Friday, August 05, 2005

The International Women's Film Festival to be held in Rehovot in September

'Me and You and Everyone We Know,' opens the International Women's Festival. "When one says filmmaker, the image that automatically comes to mind is that of a man. The International Women's Film Festival, running from September 6 to 10 in Rehovot, seeks to change that image and make room for more women in the film industry, behind the camera.

The association Women in Pictures indicates that women are a minority in the world of cinema and film directing, and they often have secondary roles in television and film production. The film festival, produced and directed by Na'ama Prizant-Orpaz and Anat Shperling-Cohen, offers a stage for independent female directors and producers from Israel and around the world and reflects the artists' voices and perspective in this field. "We seek to expose the Israeli public to the point of view of creative women," said the producers.

The festival ran for the first time last September. Being the only film festival of its kind in Israel, the organizers decided to make it into an annual tradition. The opening film of the festival will take place on September 7, where there will be a screening of the award-winning film Me and You and Everyone We Know, directed by Miranda July. A drama about the human struggle to belong in an alienated and sequestrated world, this foreign film won numerous awards including four during the Cannes Film Festival, an Independent Spirit award for production and a Sundance Film Festival award.

The festival also includes a contest of movies by female Israeli producers rewarding the best movie, the best documentary film, honorable mentions and others.

Tickets cost NIS 33 or NIS 27 with prior reservation. Call (08) 946-7890 or (08) 936-4979 for reservations. For further details, go to http://www.iwff.net"

Source: Hadass Ben-Ari. Women in action. JPost.com (1 August 2005) [FullText]

Thursday, August 04, 2005

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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Orange kids vandalized police cars in Rehovot

"Two 11-year-olds charged with damaging nine police cars as part of anti-pullout protest; they refuse to identify themselves to police and parents refuse to come to police station. [This is "cynical use of children that we have seen for years with the Palestinians", YNet reader says].

REHOVOT – Rehovot police arrested Monday evening two 11-year-olds after being caught red-handed punching holes in the tires of police cars. In the last few days, nine squad cars have been vandalized outside the station. The kids had punched holes in the tires of three police cars and the car of a volunteer deputy. The children refused at first to identify themselves to police, but a few hours later, the authorities got the names of their parents. However, the parents refused to come to the police station to pick up the boys until social workers intervened. The 11-year-olds said they were angry at the police for actions against anti-disengagement protesters.

YNet reader response:

"Their kids are just tools in their political aims...

It's a terrible thing that we are seeing in the last few weeks. We are seeing the same cynical use of children that we have seen for years with the Palestinians.

This is what we have allowed to fester and grow in our country. How long will it be before we see Police raids on fanatical Yeshivot and Midrashot in Israel?

We are seeing a new type of fanatical, radical, Jewish movement that puts it's own purposes before the State of Israel. Unfortunately these people are supported by naive religious Zionists who see it as an attack on their religious Zionism. It's not and it's not religious Zionism.

It's group of Fanatical Rabbi's preaching a new philosophy of Jewish fundamentalism that will demand a Fundamental Jewish state, on parallel to Iran. It's a sad fact that in long, ongoing conflicts, each side usually ends up copying the enemies tactics and morals descend to the lowest level.

That's why we have to isolate ourselves from the Palestinian Arabs, and get closer to Europe and the USA. We are slowly sinking into the moral quagmire of the Middle East. (By Eli Vardi, Israel, Published 2 August 2005)"

Source: Eli Senyor. Orange kids vandalized police cars. YNetNews (1 August 2005) [FullText]

Monday, August 01, 2005

Teva Signed an Agreement with Rehovot R&D Biotech Company by Weizmann Institute Professor

"The big news on the business pages this week may be that Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has signed a deal to acquire American competitor Ivax Corp making it the world's largest producer of generic drugs as well as the number one supplier of generic medicines in the world. But for American consumers, the news is that the cost of their prescription drugs should continue to remain low.

Teva, based in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv, is already America's largest drug supplier, producing one in every 15 prescriptions in the US. As a manufacturer of generics, Teva manufactures versions of pharmaceuticals produced by Roche, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Merck and other makers of name-brand drugs after their patents expire. Brand-name drugs generally have 20 years of protection before patents expire. After that, generics, which are required under US law to be the equivalent of the original drug, can be introduced that can provide savings of a whopping 50 to 80 percent.

Teva CEO and President Israel Markov said the consolidation of the two companies would create the largest company in the copy-cat drug industry, "which will generate real value for its shareholders, employees and customers." Teva produces and sells more than 300 generic drugs in North America, Israel, and Europe, including anti-infective, heart, pain and other drugs. About a third of Teva's products are produced in Israel, but more importantly, most of their research and development is done at their Israel headquarters as well. Specifically, Teva's R&D focus has been on the central nervous system and autoimmune diseases, and the results have been outstanding.

Teva has developed its own brand-name drugs, like Copaxone, its proprietary treatment for multiple sclerosis, a disease where the nerves of the brain and spinal cord are damaged by one's own immune system resulting in loss of muscle control, vision, balance, sensation (such as numbness) or thinking ability.

Over 400,000 Americans suffer from multiple sclerosis and Copaxone has been prescribed by American doctors since 1997 as a treatment for the earlier stages of the disease. Michal Schwartz, a professor in the Neurobiology Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot has showed that Copaxone, can also be used as a vaccine that protects the optic nerve from neuronal degeneration. Teva recently has signed an agreement with Israeli company Proneuron [MR: founded and led by Prof. Schwartz] to explore the use of Copaxone for glaucoma and other neuro-degenerative diseases.

Another Teva produced drug, Rasagiline, has the ability to slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, a neurological disorder that affects over one million Americans. Marketed as Azilect, the drug is a type-B (MAO-B) inhibitor that blocks the breakdown of dopamine, a substance in the brain needed to facilitate movement. Azilect has been recently approved for marketing in the EU and Israel and is in advanced stages of regulatory review in the US.

The deal by which Teva agreed to buy Ivax Corp., its biggest US rival, for $7.4 billion will keep the Israeli company ahead of Novartis AG in the $58 billion worldwide market for generic drugs. Among the generic drugs that Teva is known for are versions of the ulcer drug Prilosec and the painkiller Oxycontin. The deal will give them Ivax's rights to copycats of Pfizer Inc.'s Zoloft antidepressant and GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Zofran for nausea.

An analyst for Merril Lynch crowned Teva a "global powerhouse" as a result of the acquisition. "The combination of the two companies would create a global powerhouse and strengthen Teva's already-dominant position in the US generics market,"

North America and Europe account for 91 percent of Teva's sales which totaled $4.8 billion in 2004. The company has 14,000 employees worldwide and production facilities in Israel, North America, Europe and Mexico."

Source: Israel's Teva becomes a global powerhouse. Israel21C.com (26 July 2005) [FullText]
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