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	AAD[If the father was a refusenik who left Israel, it’s no surprise that his daughter is a refusenik too]
		Milo, who was born in Paris, immigrated to Israel seven years ago and she recently completed a year of voluntary social service in Yeruham.
		The refusenik movement claims that since the formation of the conscientious objector committee in 1995 through 2002, approximately 150 young people eligible for service have applied to the committee, but only six of them (4%) have received an exemption.
		If the father was a refusenik who left Israel, it's no surprise that his daughter is a refusenik too
	www.aad-online.com /2004/Englishsite/Englinks/28-10en/aad21/1.htm

	UK Indymedia ISRAEL: More refuseniks jailed; COs Igal Rosenberg and Yair Khilou imprisoned ag
		Yair Khilou (ISR11763), one of the organisers and initiators of the "Letter of the Twelfth-Graders", in which dozens of Israeli youths collectively declared their objection last fall, was sentenced on 13 May to 14 days in prison.
		I therefore request to be exempted from service in the Israeli army on grounds of conscience and ideology - an ideology opposed to the conceptions held by the Israel Defence Forces and the governments of the State of Israel since 1967.
		Igal Rosenberg (ISR11885), another signatory of that letter, was also sentenced on 13 May to 14 days in prison.
	www5.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/05/31967.html

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		The Prison Service is considering dispersing them in other prisons in order to pressure them to divulge their names.
		Their demand to be tested in jail was immediately accepted by the Prison Service, which often affords other prisoners the chance to study and be tested.
		Approximately 40 anti-expulsion youths remain in prison, after 26 minors were released today with only minor restrictions.
	www.israelnn.com /news.php3?id=82462

	Departure Ready
		Omri was willing to accept a six-month sentence, which in all likelihood would have been converted to six months of public service, while Mazuz insisted on nine months, which would have meant actual prison time.
		Since then, Chaya, along with two friends, ages 13 and 16, have been held in Maasiyahu Prison, and an appeal to the Supreme Court to gain their release was rejected.
		Shmuel Medad, chairman of the Honenu organization, which provides legal aid for those arrested in the struggle against the Disengagement plan, says the court proceedings are reminiscent of the atmosphere in Israel during the 1950's.
	pub12.bravenet.com /forum/1019113487/show/458355

	PPRI45.asp
		The prison service rejected an in-house bid which was said by the director general of the prison service to be “excellent but in value for money terms not quite enough to wrest the contract from Group 4,” when he announced the decision on 10 December 2001.
		Unlike the first time private prisons were mooted in Israel there is now some opposition to the policy being developed.
		He was soon confronted by a prisoner suffering from Hepatitis B and C who was working in the prison kitchen and complaining that she should not be assigned to such duties because of her health.
	www.psiru.org /justice/PPRI45.asp

	Support the rights of the refuseniks (Draft resisters) in Israel!
		Yigal Rosenberg and Yair Hilu, signers of an open letter by high school seniors refusing to do military service in the Occupied Territories, are back in prison.
		If you want to be sure that the prisoners receive your letter, you may send a closed envelope also to The Forum in Support of Conscientious Objectors, POB 41199, Jaffa 61411, Israel, and we will take care to pass it on to them.
		We recently received an appeal (via the comrades of the Challenge magazine in Israel) for solidarity with two young Israelis who are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories.
	www.marxist.com /appeals/israeli_refuseniks.html

	PeaceNews #2450: Article
		Yesh Gvul's "adopt-a-refusenik" programme focuses on concrete support for imprisoned refuseniks, including: letters to the imprisoned refuseniks; support for his (sometimes her) family; protests to the Israeli authorities.
		In total, the "refusenik community", as it is now referred to amongst Israeli CO activists, is estimated to number some 2,000 people, with more than 1,200 conscientious objectors being known to CO groups.
		Focus on Israeli refuseniks and nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation and in favour of coexistence and cooperation.
	www.peacenews.info /issues/2450/245010.html

	Israeli ‘refusenik’ to speak locally By DAN WHITE SENTINEL STAFF WRITER SANTA CRUZ — Peretz Kidron is no pacifist. He be... June 27, 2004
		In his view, Israel’s continued presence in these territories — which he describes as a repressive military occupation — only stirs up hatred, makes for easy recruiting of suicide bombers and locks the nation in a cycle of violence.
		But his strong views on "selective refusal" of military service in Israel and his condemnation of Israel’s military presence in the West Bank and Gaza have make him a controversial figure in the Middle East peace movement.
		Often, in light of Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, including suicide bombings, refuseniks are accused of abandoning a moral duty to defend their country against terrorism.
	santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2004/June/27/local/stories/09local.htm

	AAT in Israel
		The Supreme Court of Israel has judged the poisoning behavior a crime, punishable by a prison sentence.
		One of our objectives in Israel was to interest someone to self train a service dog.
		We were given a tour of the University of Tel Aviv's zoological gardens and got to see the native cat of Israel, the Karakul.
	www.petsandpeople.org /israel.htm

	Boker tov, Boulder!: Only in Israel - Nursery schools in prisons?
		Israel's Prison Service (IPS) has prepared 900 places to imprison anti-expulsion demonstrators in the Maasiyahu prison in Ramle and the Dekel prison in Be'er Sheva.
		Prison cells face a huge courtyard and are open from five in the morning until ten at night.
		According to those arrested, the conditions at the Ma'asiyahu jail in Ramlah are comparable to a five star hotel.
	bokertov.typepad.com /btb/2005/05/only_in_israel_.html

	Archives: Story
		Vanunu, who left an Israeli prison in April after serving an 18-year sentence for passing on Israel's nuclear secrets to a British paper, is prevented from leaving Israel by the terms of his release.
		Agudath Israel of America said the New York state law, the Women's Health and Wellness Act, has exemptions for certain religious nonprofit groups, but not sectarian social service agencies.
		Israel's Channel Two television said Wednesday that the Pentagon had demanded the resignation of Amos Yaron, director-general of Israel's Defense Ministry, over the recent sale of a "strategic system" to Beijing.
	www.clevelandjewishnews.com /articles/2004/12/17/news/world/aaa.txt (2700 words)

	Prison Privatisation Report International
		Dr Shtern also said the prison would only be a pilot project and that Israel would avoid the problems that have occurred in private prisons elsewhere in the world.
		The 150 year old Mountjoy prison in Dublin is to be closed and the prison service (IPS) has been asked to identify a greenfield site on the outskirts of the city so that a new prison can be built.
		A new prison to be built in the east of Denmark could be privately built and operated semi-privately.
	www.psiru.org /justice/ppri60.htm (2700 words)

	Yoni 4 Knesset: June 2005 Archives
		Israel plans to speed up the delivery of goods to the Strip over the coming period in light of concerns that during the disengagement, such operations could be impeded.
		Both Israel and the United States are demanding that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas use the police force, which was given rifles by Israel as part of the 1993 Oslo Accords, to crack down on terror groups.
		The state now plans to charge parents of repeat offenders, youths arrested more than once in anti-disengagement protests as “neglected children,” permitting social service agencies to remove the children from their parents’ custody under law.
	www.yoni4knesset.com /mt/archives/2005_06.html (19378 words)

	wfbcjisr.txt
		The Israel Prison Service Commission is the administrative body in charge of the management of the IPS.
		There are 11 prisons in Israel and 3 detention centers.
		The population estimate of Israel for 1992 was 5,123,000.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/pub/ascii/wfbcjisr.txt (19378 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Israel Prison Service officials, who are closely monitoring the strike to ensure that no one collapses or dies, say that Barghouti is not alone, and that at least ten other top terrorists - leaders of the hunger strike - have taken advantage of their solitary confinement to grab a quick bite.
		Prison Service officials said they brought him a full meal yesterday and left it at the opening to his cell.
		Prison Service officials were able to photograph him, however, noting also that they later gathered his empty utensils.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=67546 (388 words)

	New Profile - A Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society
		It has come to my attention that Yahel Avigur (military ID 7379352), a pacifist conscientious objector, has been imprisoned for the second time for his refusal to perform military service and is held in Military Prison No. 4 in Tzrifin.
		Yahel Avigur, a pacifist conscientious objector to military service from Qiriat Motzkin, near Haifa (see his photo in the attached file) has been sentenced on Sunday (27 February 2005) to 28 days in military prison.
		It has been a while since we last sent out an update on imprisoned objectors in Israel, mostly because the Israeli military preferred to avoid imprisoning objectors in recent months.
	www.newprofile.org /showdata.asp?pid=758&language=en (388 words)

	Israeli PM assassin Yigal Amir on open-ended hunger strike - Wikinews
		The issue of contention is denial of recognition of his marriage to Larisa Trembovler by Israeli Prisons Service.
		In January 2004, when news of the couple's intentions reached the press, Israel Prisons Service Commissioner Lieutenant General Ya'akov Ganot rejected Amir's request to marry in jail, even though by then the Prison Service had itself submitted a formal application for permission to hold the ceremony.
		"Prison Service: Amir will not be with Trembovler".
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Yigal_Amir (438 words)

	Lebanese, Israeli Druze leaders meet in Amman
		AMMAN — Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Sunday urged Druze living in Israel to boycott service in the Israeli army in a bid to support Palestinians in their 11-month-old uprising against occupation.
		The head of the Druze delegation from Israel, Saeed Nafaa, said his community will “fight” to put an end to its service in the Israeli army.
		Jumblatt and Israeli Druze leaders signed a joint statement in Amman in May in which they urged members of their community to refuse the draft.
	www.jordanembassyus.org /08202001001.htm (560 words)

	Middleas
		During 1997, Israel's highest court continued to refrain from challenging this claim, by ruling against Palestinian petitioners when they sought court orders barring the General Security Service from using physical force against them.
		Others among these prisoners completed prison sentences in Israel up to nine years ago but orders for their deportation upon release were suspended without explanation and their long imprisonment under administrative orders has continued.
		The situation in Israel and Palestine was particularly acute during protracted periods of closure of the occupied territories that kept human rights workers from moving freely within and between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
	www.hrw.org /hrw/worldreport/Middleas.htm (560 words)

	Israeli PM assassin Yigal Amir on open-ended hunger strike - Wikinews
		Two months ago, Amir and Trimbovler asked the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to represent them before the Prison Service, and present their desire to marry within the prison walls.
		Yigal Amir, the student who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, began a hunger strike on June 28th in protest against "the basic human rights abuse by Israel's prison authorities", as he describes it.
		Disputing that (according to updates from Larisa Trembovler journal) Yigal Amir in a phone conversation insists that it is a lie and he is not given anything near 5 liters of drinks a day.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Yigal_Amir (535 words)

	NucNews - December 28, 2001
		Smyth's guilty plea to one count of violating the Arms Export Control Act and one count of making a false statement to the Customs Service was expected to land him in federal prison for up to seven years when he is sentenced Feb. 28.
		LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A former engineer admitted in federal court Friday that he smuggled 50 electronic devices to Israel that could be used for a number of applications, including triggering nuclear bombs.
		Richard Kelly Smyth, who spent the past 16 years living in Spain as a fugitive, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to a 1985 charge that he illegally exported a shipment of krytrons to Israel in 1982 without the appropriate U.S. licenses.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2001nn/0112nn/011228nn.htm (20946 words)

	Moshe Marzouk biography .ms
		Why they were caught and more or less abandoned by Israel to incarceration, and for a while, torture in Egypt's prisons to be finally released only 14 years later, is a question that has never been answered.
		At the same time it was not publicly conceded that he died in the service of Israel.
		Moshe Marzouk of Cairo was sentenced to death by Egypt and hanged in a Cairo prison.
	moshe-marzouk.biography.ms (20946 words)

	Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike
		The non-profit group, which promotes the right to health care in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, addressed the message to the head of the prison service and the health and interior ministers, Dani Naveh and Tsahi Hanegbi, who have vowed the detainees will not triumph.
		We will ward off this strike and it will be as if it never happened." This displays not only a flagrant disregard for the health and well being of the Palestinian prison population, but also aligns the Israeli government position with the abusive policies of Israeli prison authorities.
		AL-HAQ (August 18, 2004)- Over 1,600 Palestinian political prisoners are currently participating in a hunger strike to protest their detention conditions and treatment by Israeli prison authorities.
	www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /aaug020.html (2760 words)

	Sex Abuse Is Poor Interrogation Tool, Israelis Say
		Sexual abuse goes too far by breaking him, so it's not an option," Ami Ayalon, former chief of Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service, told Reuters.
		JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Sexual humiliation of the kind practiced by U.S. military police at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (news - web sites) does little to help interrogators gain useful information from prisoners, Israeli counter-terrorism experts said Monday.
		A few perverts in the prison used sexual humiliation for their own gratification.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1137032/posts (1102 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Jerusalem mufti condemns Israeli 'abuse of Koran'
		Palestinian detainees at Meggido in northern Israel accused the authorities earlier this week of deliberately ripping out pages of the Koran during a search of their cells, claims which have been rigorously denied by the Israeli prison service.
		Around 900 prisoners at Meggido began a three-day protest hunger strike on Wednesday, although the prison service said the fast had ended within less than 24 hours.
		Dozens of Israeli police reinforcements were deployed to occupied East Jerusalem on Friday for fear of widespread protests at the end of prayers as well as on the perimeter of Al-Aqsa where access was denied to men aged under 45.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=15829 (1102 words)

	Vanunu - the facts
		Vanunu was sentenced to 18 years in prison, not to life or 20 years - or to 18 years with an open option for the Israeli government to extend the time.
		The nuclear danger is the dominating theme, repeated endlessly, in the prolific flow of letters from Vanunu´s prison cell.
		Israel´s nuclear policy is one of deliberate ambiguity: it does not formally acknowldedge the possession of the bomb, but it wants everybody to know that it does have the bomb.
	www.peaceispossible.info /Vanunu.html (4104 words)

	Yigal Amir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hunger strike has been started because of the refusal by the Israeli Prison Service to allow him the right to "conjugal meetings" in prison with his wife, Trembovler, and the tight restrictions placed upon them during their meetings.
		While in prison, Amir was engaged to Larisa Trembovler (in Russian: Лариса Трембовлер) (and sometimes written as Trimbobler in English.) She is a Jewish immigrant to Israel from the former Soviet Union.
		Trembovler holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, has published a novel in Russian (A Mirror for a Prince) and is an Orthodox Jew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yigal_Amir (1055 words)

	Facts on the Ground
		On October 1, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, leader of HAMAS, was released from prison in Israel in exchange for Jordan's release of two alleged Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) agents arrested after the botched assassination attempt of
		Ahmed Tibi, an adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, told Israel Army Radio that the move amounted to a conscious declaration of war against the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the Palestinians in general.
		The Palestine National Authority (PNA), in his view, had erred in recognizing "the enemy state" to begin with at the time the Oslo Accords were signed, and, it erred in relying on U.S. support and mediation, which failed because the U.S. was aligned with Israel.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/factsontheground.htm (1055 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Growing criticism of reserve officers' refusal to serve in territories
		Yesh Gvul was founded in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, when 168 servicemen were jailed, some repeatedly, for refusing to serve in the campaign.
		The signatories of the letter were all reservists who stated that they "serve the state of Israel for many weeks each year, regardless of the heavy personal cost," and who had never before shirked their duties defending the State of Israel.
		The events that led to the officers' decision to refuse service in the territories and publish their letter were covered at length in the weekend edition of Yediot Aharonot.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/21.htm (1283 words)

	Were Abu Ghraib abuses learned from Israel? / Palestinians think so, but Shin Bet interrogators scoff at U.S. methods
		Friedman's committee continues to voice concern about Israeli interrogation techniques, including the alleged use of banned techniques such as shabah, in which a prisoner is locked in tight handcuffs and leg irons and forced to sit in a contorted position with a stinking sack over the head and loud music playing nonstop.
		But veterans of Israel's Shin Bet secret service, which conducts most of the country's anti-terrorist investigations, scoff at such charges and say sexual humiliation of the type seen in photos from Abu Ghraib is not even a useful tool in interrogating suspects.
		Some Palestinian and other Arab prisoners held by Israel have alleged more serious sexual abuse.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/27/MNGMM7CTSF1.DTL&type=printable (1168 words)

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