August 4, 2009

Police Commissioner David Cohen called on the public not to blame specific sectors of the community for the attack Saturday night on a gay community center in Tel Aviv in which two people were killed – Nir Katz, 26, of Givatayim and Liz Trobishi, 16, of Holon. Fifteen others were injured in the armed assault.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday that the United States would present a Middle East peace plan within weeks and that Israel should accept it.

Larry Garber remembers the last time he was living in Israel and someone wanted to cut off foreign government funds to human rights groups that discomfited the political establishment.