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50 YEARS AGO
On April 26, 1967, The Jerusalem Post reported that world leaders had arrived in Germany for the funeral of Konrad Adenauer, the man who turned a defeated postWorld War II country into a prosperous nation and an ally of the West. Israel was represented by foreign minister Abba Eban, former premier David Ben-Gurion, and ambassador to West Germany Asher Ben-Natan.
In Bonn, Eban held an hour long meeting with German foreign minister Willy Brandt and they agreed to hold another meeting within a month, while Ben-Gurion met German chancellor Kurt Kiesinger.
An explosive charge was found by a Border Police patrol on the Manara-Misgav Am road in Upper Galilee. It was dismantled by a police sapper. The mine bore Syrian markings and was apparently placed by Fatah saboteurs. A complaint was lodged with the UN Joint Israeli-Syrian Armistice Commission.
25 YEARS AGO
On April 26, 1992, The Jerusalem Post reported that prime minister Yitzhak Shamir was optimistic on Syria allowing Jews to leave soon. Answering guests at Maimuna festivities in Jerusalem, Shamir said that Israel was prepared for any such release.
Welfare payments for recipients age 55 and over were to be hiked by 20 to 25%, according to a joint proposal by Shamir and finance minister Yitzhak Moda’i, scheduled to be discussed at the next cabinet meeting. Labor MKs described this proposal as “election economics.”
Palestinians were poised to reject the idea of holding municipal elections in the territories, when the fifth round of the bilateral Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Arab States was expected to convene in Washington the following day.
Police inspector-general Ya’acov Terner had asked attorney-general Yosef Harish to rule on the legality of a wire-tap recording which allegedly incriminated police comptroller Cmdr. MosheTsur.
10 YEARS AGO
On April 26, 2007, The Jerusalem Post reported that prime minister Ehud Olmert might have been guilty of criminal behavior by taking part in an Investment Center decision to provide a $10 million grant to a company represented by a close friend, and former business partner and personal lawyer, state comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss disclosed. He informed attorney-general Menahem Mazuz about his investigation in a letter and released a 30-page report titled “Conflict of interests on the part of the industry and trade minister,” and recommending a criminal probe of Olmert in the “Silicate affair.”
A Palestinian Authority spokesman in Ramallah disclosed that Egypt threatened to cut off its ties with Hamas unless the movement halted its rocket attacks on Israel.
The government suspected former Balad MK Azmi Bashara of providing assistance to the enemy in time of war, passing on information to the enemy, contact with a foreign agent, money-laundering violations, and other crimes, according to a decision handed down by the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court.
An Avaaz.org billboard invited Israelis to go to the beaches of Saudi Arabia, dependent on peace initiatives.