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GILAD SHALIT`S THIRD BIRTHDAY IN CAPTIVITY

YARKON RIVER SEARCH FOR MISSING 4 YEAR OLD SUSPENDED

PEACE ACTIVIST ABBY NATAN DIES AT AGE 81

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FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF CAPTURED IDF SOLDIER GILAD SHALIT MARKED HIS 22^ND BIRTHDAY AT HIS HOUSE IN MITZPEH HILA IN THE UPPER GALILEE . THIS BIRHTDAY WILL BE THE THIRD THAT THE SOLDIER HAS SPENT IN CAPTIVITY SINCE HE WAS KIDNAPPED BY HAMAS IN JUNE 2006. THE SHALIT FAMILY AND GILAD`S CLOSE FRIENDS HELD A PRIVATE CEREMNOY IN MITZPEH HILA WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY A RALLY WAS HELD IN RABIN SQUARE IN TEL AVIV.GILAD`S MOTHER AVIVA SENT A MESSAGE TO THE POLITICIANS SAYING THEY WERE BUSY WITH THEIR OWN PERSONAL AFFAIRS AND WEREN`T DOING ENOUGH TO FREE GILAD. SHE ALSO SENT A MESSAGE TO GILAD ASKING HIM TO BE STRONG AND NOT TO LOSE HOPE.

THE SEARCH CONDUCTED AT TEL AVIV`S YARKON RIVER FOR THE SUITCASE SUPPOSEDLY CONTAINING THE REMAINS OF MISSING 4 YEAR OLD ROSE WAS SUSPENDED  AT AROUND NOONTHURSDAY JUST A FEW HOURS AFTER IT HAD RESUMED. POLICE ARE NOW LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF DRAINING SOMM 200 METERS OF THE RIVER IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOCATE THE SUITCASE. THE POLICE CONCLUDED THAT THE RIVER`S CURRENTS MAY HAVE SWEPT THE SUITCASE TO THE SEA. POLICE ARE ALSO CONTINUING THEIR SEARCH FOR THE GIRL IN THE SHARON AREA IN AND AROUND NETANYA.MEANWHILE RONI RON AND ROSE`S MOTHER MARIE CHARLOTTE RENAULT PIZEM WERE QUESTIONED AGAIN.EARLIER INTERNAL SECURITY MINISTER AVI DICHTER ARRIVED AT THE YARKON RIVER SEARCH SITE AND URGED POLICE DIVERS AND INVESTIGATORS TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER AS TO THE LOCATION OF THE MISSING GIRL.

ROSE`S FATHER BENJAMIN DENIED REPORTS THAT HE ABUSED ROSE . HE EXPRESSED HIS HOPE THAT HIS DUAGHTER MIGHT BE ALIVE BUT HE STRESSED THAT HIS FATHER WHO WAS CAPABLE OF STEALING HIS WIFE FROM A SON HE DID NOT KNOW WAS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.

ATTORNEYS FOR MORRIS TALANSKY THE STATE`S KEY WITNESS IN THE CURROPTION INVESTIGATION AGAINST PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT FILED AN APPEAL WITH THE JERUSALEM DISTRICT COURT REQUESTING A POSTPONMENT OF THEIR CLIENT`S TESTIMONY WHICH WAS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE SUNDAY. IN THEIR APPEAL THE ATTORNEYS ASKED TO FIND A WAY FOR TALANSKY TO CONTINUE TO TESTIFY IN LIGHT OF AN INVESTIGATION CURRENTLY UNDERWAY AGAINST HIM IN THE US AND HIS ATTORNEYS FEARED THAT HIS TESTIMONY IN ISRAEL WOULD BE USED AGAINST HIM IN THE AMERICAN INVESTIGATION.

AND FINALLY ABBY NATAN THE PILOT ENTRREPENEUR PEACE ACTIVIST AND FOUNDER OF THE GROUNDBREAKING VOICE PF PEACE RADIO STATION DIED WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT TEL AVIV`S ICHILOV HOSPITAL . HE WAS 81. NATAN WAS BORN IN IRAN EDUCATED IN INDIA AND SERVED IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AS A FIGHTER PILOT BEFORE EMMIGRATING TO ISRAEL DURING THE 1948 WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND JOINING THE IDF`S AIR FORCE.

NATAN BURST INTO THE WORLD OF MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY IN 1966 WITH A DRAMATIC SOLO FLIGHT TO EGYPT MORE THAN A DECADE BEFORE ISRAEL AND EGYPT SIGNED A PEACE AGREEMENT.IN 1973 HE BOUGHT A FREIGHTER ANCHORED IT OFF THE COAST OF TEL AVIV AND TURNED IT INTO A PIRATE RADIO STATION THE VOICE OF PEACE WITH A MIX OF POP SONGS AND PEACE MESSAGES. IN 1993 ISRAEL AND THE PLO SIGNED AN INTERIM PEACE AGREEMENT AND NATAN CELEBRATED WITH SYMBOLISM HE SANK THE VOICE OF PEACE SHIP.

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MISSING GIRL`S GRANDFATHER SUSPECTED OF KILLING HER

 POLICE SEARCHING FOR ROSE`S BODY FOR OVER A WEEK

US INDICTMENT OF MOB BOSS ABERJIL REVELEAD

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45 YEAR OLD NETANYA RESIDENT RONNY RON IS SUSPECTED OF HAVING MURDERED HIS GRANDAUGHTER 4 YEAR OLD ROSE WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR THREE MONTHS STUFFING HER BODY INTO A SUITCASE WHICH HE ALLEGEDLY DUMPED INTO THE YARKON RIVER.RONNY CONFESSED THAT HE PICKED THE GIRL UP FROM HER GREAT GRANDMOTHER`S HOUSE GOT MAD AT HER DURING THE RIDE AND STRUCK HER. HE THEN REALIZED THAT HER HEAD WAS LIMP AND SHE WAS NOT BREATHING . HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE PANICKED AND DECIDED TO GET RID OF HER BODY. FOLLOWING MORE THAN TWO WEEKS OF INTENSIVE POLICE SEARCHES THAT DID NOT TURN UP THE SUITCASE IT WAS DECIDED TO LIFT  A COMPREHENSIVE GAG ORDER THAT WAS INITIALLY PLACED ON ALL DETAILS OF THE CASE. THE BODY HAS NOT BEEN FOUND YET. THE VICTIM`S GREAT GRANDMOTHER VIVIAN EXPOSED THE CASE WHEN SHE WROTE A LETTER TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE CHILD SAYING THAT THE GIRL WHO HAD BEEN IN HER CARE UNTIL LAST MAY HAD DISSAPEARED SINCE HER SON HAD TAKEN HER.

THE INVESTIGATION REVEALED A COMPLICATED FAMILY HISTORY. ROSE WAS BORN IN FRANCE TO FRENCH BORN MARIE AND BENJAMIN AN ISRAELI BEFORE EITHER TURNED 20. WHEN SHE WAS AN INFANT HER PARENTS CAME TO ISRAEL FOR A VISIT TO BENJAMIN`S FAMILY. AT THE END OF THE VISIT BENJAMIN RETURNED TO FRANCE WITH HIS DAUGHTER ROSE AND MARIE REMAINED IN ISRAEL AFTER FALLING IN LOVE WITH BENJAMIN`S FATHER RONNY. THE TWO WED AND HAD TWO BABIES. WHEN MARIE FOUND OUT THAT ROSE`S FATHER HAD A DIFFICULTY TO RAISE HER SHE AND RONNY LAUNCHED A LEGAL BATTLE TO GAIN CUSTODY OF THE GIRL. BUT UPON HER ARRIVAL IN ISRAEL THEY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE WITH HER AND HER GREAT GRANDMOTHER TOOK CARE OF HER. MEANWHILE AS FRANTIC SEARCHES CONTINUED IN THE YARKON FOR ROSE`S BODY POLICE SAID AN  INDICTMENT WOULD BE SERVED AGAINST THE SUSPECTED KILLER EVEN IF NO BODY WAS FOUND.

POLICE REVEALED THE DETAILS OF AN INDICTMENT FILED IN THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALLEGED MOB BOSS ITZIK ABEJIL AND HIS BROTHER MEIR DURING A REMAND HEARING IN THE JERUSALEM MAGISTARTE`S COURT. THE INDICTMENT CHARGES ABERJIL WITH A SERIES OF OFFENSES BETWEEN 2002 AND 2006 INCLUDING THE MURDER OF ISRAELI DRUG DEALER SAMMY ATIAS IN LOS ANGELES MONEY LAUNDERING DRUG DEALING AND EXTORTION.MEIR  ABERJIL SAID HE HAD NEVER BEEN TO THE UNITED STATES AND THAT ALL OF THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM WERE A POLICE PROVOCATION.

US SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZA RICE ARRIVED IN THE REGION TO ADVANCE THE PEACE TALKS AND MET WITH PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI LEADERS. SHE CALLED ON ISRAEL TO END WEST BANK CONSTRUCTION (SOT)

And finally DEFENSE MINSTER EHUD BARAK MET WITH EGYPTIAN PRSEIDENT HOUSNI MUBARAK IN ALEXANDRIA  . DURING THE TALKS BARAK THANKED MUBARAK FOR HIS EFFORTS IN CURBING WEAPONS SMUGGLING INTO THE GAZA STRIP BUT EMPHASIZED THAT FURTHER EFFORTS MUST BE MADE TO LOCATE SMUGGLING TUNNELS. FURHTERMORE BARAK SAID THAT RETURNING IDF SOLDIER GILAD SHALIT HOME FROM GAZA WAS ONE OF ISRAEL`S PARAMOUNT GOALS AND THAT ISRAEL CONSIDERED EGYPT A CENTRAL PARTNER IN THE EFFORTS TO RETURN THE SOLDIER.