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My Right Word (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Rafi Eitan, currently a Minister in Ehud Olmert's Kadima-led coalition ogvernment, and previously a Mossad agent and ultimate handler of Jonathan Pollard, was interviewed in the Maariv weekend magazine this past week. Below is a scan of most of the section devoted to the question of his involvement and thoughts on the case:- Here are some highlights (the official Pollard site, that is, the
Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants to increase the budgets allocated to former prime ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Shamir. He also wants to give more money to each of the ministers without portfolio: Ruhama Avraham-Balila (Kadima), Rafi Eitan (Pensioners), Haim Ramon (Kadima) and Ami Ayalon (Labor) for their bureaus. In addition, Religious Affairs Minister Yitzhak Cohen (Shas) will be...
Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
The chairman of the Pensioners Party, Rafi Eitan, kept his party intact this week, getting MK Elhanan Glazer to serve under him in the Pensioner Affairs Ministry in return for staying in the party. Glazer will serve as deputy minister to Minister Eitan. ...
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
It is now official. MK Moshe Sharoni is breaking off from the Pensioner’s Party to launch a new Knesset party, Justice for Pensioners. The party, headed by Minister Rafi Eitan, surprised the nation and themselves, emerging from the national election with seven seats in the current Knesset. Things were running fairly well until a number of [...]
Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Israel has no knowledge of plans to release Jonathan Pollard from prison in the United States, where he is serving a life sentence for spying on Israel's behalf, political sources familiar with the matter said in response to statements by Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan in an interview Monday night with the Knesset television channel. ...
Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Power struggles between the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan, who was appointed by the government to oversee the issue of Holocaust-era property claims, is delaying the revival of the operation of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO). ...
