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*WEEKEND
OF PALESTINIAN ATTACKS KILLS 4
*PALESTINIANS FIRE KASSAM 2 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL
*SEPTEMBER 11TH US RESCUE WORKERS HONORED BY ISRAEL
*ISRAEL DONATES INTENSIVE CARE UNIT TO JORDAN
*ECONOMIC BRIEFS
WEEKEND
OF PALESTINIAN ATTACKS KILLS 4
Two Palestinian terrorists opened fire outside a military base in Be’er Sheva
on Sunday, killing Israel Defense Forces Officers Lt. Keren Rothstein, 20,
of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi, 18, of Moshav Ein Habesor, and wounding
sixteen others, THE JERUSALEM POST reported. Hamas claimed responsibility
for the attack.
The two terrorists, dressed in civilian clothing and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, parked their stolen car near the base. They got out of the car and opened fire outside a crowded pastry shop opposite the base.
An IDF officer, who was in the shop at the time, immediately returned fire, killing one of the terrorists. The second terrorist fled, but was shot and killed by a soldier and police officer pursuing him.
Malachi and Rothstein were laid to rest today. Friends of the Malachi said it was the second tragedy to hit the family, noting the mother Esther died of cancer 18 months ago. Friends described Malachi as an outstanding soldier and a wonderful person. Malachi was drafted in August 2001 and served in IDF Southern Command as a non-commissioned education officer. She studied communications in the high school in Ein Habesor. Her friends describe her as a serious, responsible and talented girl who loved to dance. In the course of her studies, she produced several movies, including a film version of the book The Little Prince.
Malachi’s aunt said, "she was a flower that was plucked in the spring, when it was just blossoming." She is survived by her father Yossi, her brother Saguy, and two sisters, Hadar and Marva.
Rothstein was buried in Ashkelon’s military cemetery. Rothstein served as a culture and education officer in the IDF Southern Command and was scheduled to complete her army service in April, but signed on for more time in the reserves.
Keren studied at the Rosnon high school in Ashkelon and was an outstanding student. "She was very active in the student council, and did very well, as well as any parent would hope," said the school principal. She is survived by her parents and two sisters.
Meanwhile, Palestinian terrorists ambushed the car of Atala Lipovsky, 79, on Saturday night, near the Tapuah Junction, killing her and wounding her two sons YEDIOT AHARONOT reported. Atala aresident of Ma’aleh Ephraim in the West Bank, was driving her two sons home when Palestinain gunmen opened fire and and shot Atala in the head. Victor, her son, was also wounded during the attack managed to drive to the Israel Defense Forces’ outpost in the Tapuah junction.
Lipovsky immigrated from the Ukraine six years ago and lived in Kfar Saba. She moved to Ma’aleh Ephraim two years ago to be close to her family.
In another Palestinian terrorist attack, Moran Amit, 25, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terror cell on Friday afternoon in Jerusalem’s Peace Forest. Amit was walking with her boyfriend Gil Nov in the forest, when four masked assailants approached them. The two decided to split up and fled in opposite directions. The police apprehended the members of the cell and rushed Amit to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where later she died of her wounds.
Amit was a second year law student at the University of Haifa and worked as the manager of the Singles Forum at the Ynet web site. "We lost a beautiful child, successful, smart, talented and full of life. All she wanted was to tour Jerusalem," said her parents. She is survived by her parents, two brothers and a sister.
The Police said that the four assailants were involved in a number of attacks in that part of Jerusalem in recent months, including two attempted stabbings, throwing Molotov cocktails at houses, and trying to set a building on fire by lighting cylinders of cooking gas.
Amit will be buried tommorrow.
PALESTINIANS
FIRE KASSAM 2 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL
Palestinians fired Kassam 2 rockets at Kibbutz Sa’ad eight kilometers from
the Gaza Strip on Sunday, HA’ARETZ reported. The rockets have a range of five
miles and allow the Palestinians a way to strike at Israeli population centers
without having to leave the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has warned that the firing of Palestinian rockets would cause a serious escalation of the conflict that would bring a "total change in our military tactics."
Minister of Defense Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Monday that if the Palestinians continue to launch Kassam-2 rockets at Israeli communties, Israel might have to take action that could harm the civilian population in Palestinian controlled neighborhoods.
Ministers who attended the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which was addressed by Ben-Eliezer, quoted him as saying: "If we have to blockade Nablus, we will do it as long as is needed, and if we have to blockade Tul Karm – we will do it as long as is needed."
In response to the Palestinain gun attacks and rockets launches into Israel, the Israel Air Forces bombarded the main security complex in Gaza Strip overnight and Israel Defense Forces are preparing for possible entry into Palestinian cities along the West Bank’s Green Line border, in case of future firings of rockets from those areas, as a preventative measure to head off such firings.
SEPTEMBER
11TH US RESCUE WORKERS HONORED BY ISRAEL
A delegation of twelve U.S. rescue workers arrived today in Israel and was
honored for their heroism in the aftermath of the September 11th terror attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, HA’ARETZ reported. In a special
ceremony, Minister of Tourism Benny Elon gave the honorees certificates of
"courage and valor." The visitors were also given kippot in the
colors of the U.S. flag, inscribed with the words "God Bless America."
Elon said during the ceremony that it is a "holy challenge to show those terrorists that they cannot force us to change our way of life." New York City Police Lt. Phyllis Byrne talked about United States’solidarity with Israel and added that "Israel is a country that has seen a tremendous amount of terrorism and yet continues to go on."
The delegation was invited to Israel by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Tourism the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and El Al. The policemen are also scheduled to meet with Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and Minister of Defense Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
ISRAEL
DONATES INTENSIVE CARE UNIT TO JORDAN
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Center for International Cooperation, MASHAV,
recently opened an intensive care unit in the Red Crescent hospital in Amman,
Jordan, YEDIOT AHARONOT reported. Israeli specialists made the unit’s plans
and the equipment was brought from Israel. The unit includes special beds
for intensive care patients, x-ray machines, resuscitation apparatuses and
first aid kits.
The President of the Jordanian Red Crescent sent a letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres thanking him for the unit. He said that the Israeli unit is the most advanced in Jordan. He added that "Jordan was astonished and appreciative of the Israeli teams’ efforts."
ECONOMIC
BRIEFS
*Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) export sales grew 3.9% to $2.19 billion
in 2001, GLOBES reported. The company’s new contracts signed in 2001 grew
11% to $2.88 billion. The figures are from a preliminary initial management
summary for 2001. Business on the local market also grew, with $689 million
in new contracts, and constituted 24% of all business. New contracts in North
America, primarily in the US, totaled $1.3 billion in 2001. Business amounted
to $541 million in Asia and $190 million in Europe.
*Tel Aviv-based SHL Telemedicine Ltd. said it will acquire American competitor Raytel Medical Corporation, for $31.1 million. Like SHL, the San Mateo, California-based company provides remote cardiac monitoring and testing services. According to the agreement a SHL subsidiary will pay $10.25 per share, which is a premium of approximately 28 percent over Thursday’s closing price for the Nasdaq-traded company. The announcement caused Raytel’s share price to soar to a 52 week high of $10.17.
SHL chairman and CEO Yoram Alroy said that the acquisition will help the Israeli company, which has been traded in Switzerland since November 2000, penetrate the lucrative US market.
Israel Line is a daily summary of news items taken directly from the Israeli media.
* GOVERNMENT ASKS DEMOCRACIES TO FIGHT PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT
* KNESSET PASSES LAW TO REGULATE ISA
* MORNING AFTER PILL APPROVED FOR OVER THE COUNTER USE
* ECONOMIC BRIEFS
BEN-ELIEZER:
ISRAEL USING NECESSARY MEANS TO DEFEND AGAINST ROCKET ATTACKS
Minister of Defense Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said today while conducting a security
assessment in northern Israel that the Israel Defense Force would continue
its operations in what he referred to as a "security zone" until
there was no danger of Kassam-2 rockets being fired at population centers
inside Israel, HA’ARETZ reported. "As long as there is a danger of Kassam-2
rockets being fired, we will certainly do everything we need, whether that
means operating within those territories or by any other means. Our presence
there is not permanent." He added, "We are there in order to ensure
the reduction of the dangers posed by the Kassam-2’s long-range capabilities."
A statement released by the Spokesman’s Unit of the IDF on Sunday said that
the rockets were extremely deadly because they possessed 5 kilograms of explosive
material and posed a threat to large populations centers due to their long
range capabilities of hitting targets five to eight kilometers away.
According to THE JERUSALEM POST, while addressing the use of the Kassam-2 rockets by Palestinians on Monday, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher called the Palestinian deployment of new, longer range Kassam-2 rockets a "deeply troubling and provocative escalation. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority need to act now to halt this kind of dangerous and provocative escalation." Boucher added that the United States is "deeply troubled by the upsurge in violence in the region."
Seven Israelis have been killed by terrorists in less than a week, and Israel has responded by targeting PA installations in the Gaza Strip, wounding a few dozen Palestinians. Asked whether Israel would continue to allow Hizbullah to fire anti-tank missiles over the border without responding, Ben-Eliezer said Israel "is making every effort to avoid an escalation," and that he hoped that "we won’t be put in a situation where Israel is forced to respond."
GOVERNMENT ASKS DEMOCRACIES TO FIGHT PALESTINIAN
INCITEMENT
The Knesset Education Committee is asking leaders of democratic countries
to withhold funding for Palestinian education until the Palestinian Authority
removes anti-Israel sentiment which the committee said is fueling Middle East
violence, THE JERUSALEM POST reported.
In a condemnation of Palestinian textbooks, committee chairman MK Zevulun Orlev (NRP) said on Monday that the textbooks are a "hotbed for the growth of martyrs and suicide bombers." The books and the PA’s educational system promote hatred rather than peace or tolerance and do not recognize the state of Israel, Orlev said. "Instead of erasing stereotypes they are passing them on to the next generation," Orlev added. The Committees call is based on a new report by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, which reviewed 55 new PA textbooks and two teachers’ guides for grades 1, 2, 6, 7 and 11.
KNESSET
PASSES LAW TO REGULATE ISA
The Knesset approved a groundbreaking law on Monday night which regulates
the Israeli Security Agency, HA’ARETZ reported. The new law, which took five
years to pass, outlines the responsibilities of the ISA including the agency’s
goals and responsibilities, the government bodies responsible for its supervision
and how the head of the organization will be chosen. The ISA’s status and
responsibilities have never before been spelled out in legislation. The law
states that the ISA’s goal is "protecting the state’s security, its institutions
and its democratic regime against terrorist threats, sabotage, subversion,
espionage and the exposure of state secrets." The ISA "will also
work to protect and promote other state interests vital to national security."
Responsibility for supervising the ISA will be divided amongst the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, the Ministerial Committee on the ISA, and the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s subcommittee on the secret services.
MORNING AFTER PILL APPROVED FOR
OVER THE COUNTER USE
The Ministry of Health decided on Monday that the contraceptive pill Postinor-2
will be sold at pharmacies effective immediately without requirement of a
prescription, YEDIOT AHARONOT reported. Known as "the morning-after pill,"
the Postinor-2 prevents unwanted pregnancy after incidents of rape, contraceptive
failure or unprotected sex.
The medication was approved for use in Israel with a doctor’s prescription in September of 2000, however, the Ministry decided to make the medication available over-the-counter in the interest of time because the pill is only effective during the 72-hour period following intercourse. Although it will take several weeks for pharmacies to stock up on the medication, they have already been informed of the new regulations.
Economic Briefs
* Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has been granted tentative approval
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Quinapril HCL 5,10, 20 and
40 mg tablets, THE JERUSALEM POST reported. It is the first tentative approval
granted by the FDA for Quinapril, the generic version of Parke Davis’ Accupril(R)
for the treatment of hypertension.
* Telecommunications company Ceragon Networks, which grew 6,754 percent from 1998-2000, was the winner of the Israel Technology FAST 50 competition held by accounting and consulting firm Deloitte & Touche, Brightman Almagor, THE JERUSALEM POST reported. Tel Aviv-based Ceragon, which develops broadband wireless communications networks, is traded on Nasdaq at a market capitalization of $72.5 million. TargetMatch.com, which develops Internet marketing and advertising platforms, came in second with 4,337 percent revenue growth. Emblaze Systems, which develops multimedia streaming solutions for mobile devices, had 3,086 percent growth.
Israel Line is a daily summary of major news items taken directly from the Israeli media
* TERRORIST RESPONSIBLE FOR SCORES OF DEATHS SENTENCED
TO 26 LIFE TERMS
* ARAFAT, RAJOUB AT ODDS OVER CONTROL OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
* SHEKEL RISES AGAINST DOLLAR
* ECONOMIC BRIEFS
STRAW
CONDEMNS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM
British Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jack Straw said this afternoon that the
Palestinians must take the first steps toward a solution to the Middle East
conflict, THE JERUSALEM POST reported. Straw arrived in Israel today for two
days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to gauge the positions
of both sides before European Union foreign ministers meet in Brussels next
Monday.
After meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres, Straw said the Palestinian Authority has driven Palestinian terrorism over the past six months. The PA, he said, should thus be able to curtail terrorism. The first step should be to make the lives of individual Israelis much more secure, Straw said. Straw’s visit is his second in five months.
Straw will meet with PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in Ramallah this evening and is planning to tell him that he must do more to reduce violence. Before going to Ramallah, Straw is scheduled to meet separately with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Minister of Defense Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. In addition to meeting political leaders, Straw will visit the Jerusalem headquarters of Magen David Adom, to review a program bringing British volunteers to Israel, and to see how the country deals with continuing terrorism.
Straw will be followed by German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer who is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday to urge the sides to stop fighting and resume negotiations.
TERRORIST RESPONSIBLE FOR
SCORES OF DEATHS SENTENCED TO 26 LIFE TERMS
A military court sentenced a Palestinian terrorist to 26 consecutive life
terms on Monday for planning suicide-bombing attacks in Jerusalem’s city center
five years ago, THE JERUSALEM POST reported.
In its ruling, the court decided Muaid Said, 31, should serve full life terms for each of the 21 Israelis killed in the two attacks in 1997, as well as a life term each for the five Palestinian bombers whom Said sent on the missions. Said planned the bombings a year after he joined Hamas at the age of 25, the military prosecutor told the judge.
Meanwhile, in reprisal for Palestinian rocket fire on Israel, Israel Defense Forces troops entered three Palestinian towns and a refugee camp today. Tanks withdrew from two towns and the refugee camp after several hours, but troops set up positions in the third town, Beit Hanun. The troops arrested at least 27 suspect Islamic terrorists.
Minister of Transportation Ephraim Sneh said that soldiers would remain in Palestinian-controlled areas of Gaza until Kassam- 2 rocket factories are found. "This is a threat we cannot tolerate," he said.
ARAFAT,
RAJOUB AT ODDS OVER CONTROL OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat lashed out Monday night against
the head of preventive security in the West Bank, Jibril Rajoub, after hearing
that Rajoub’s forces failed to resist a mob that overran the PA prison in
Hebron, releasing 17 Islamic militants, HA’ARETZ reported.
According to the JERUSALEM POST, Arafat became enraged when Rajoub suggested that he could no longer control his people. Arafat was also furious that Rajoub told reporters that he would order Fatah’s Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades to lay down their weapons.
According a report in HATZOFEH, intelligence officials with sources in Arafat’s office claim that the story of the Rajoub-Arafat confrontation was a fabrication, intended for the benefit of the U.S. administration. The sources claim that Arafat leaked the story to press as a way of proving his dedication to curbing violence.
SHEKEL RISES AGAINST DOLLAR
The shekel rose against the dollar on Tuesday after Bank of Israel Governor
David Klein said he would raise interest rates to improve the currency’s stability,
THE JERUSALEM POST reported. Klein said the central bank "will continue
to maintain price stability, according to the Government’s decisions, and
will adjust the interest rate accordingly if needed." At the same time,
he said, "neither the Bank of Israel nor the Government has a target
number for the shekel’s trade rate."
After early morning trading saw the shekel drop to a record low of NIS 4.77 to the dollar, it rebounded sharply following the announcement, reaching just under NIS 4.70 by mid afternoon. The Bank of Israel set the representative rate at NIS 4.72, a 0.5 percent increase.
Michael Rabinowitz, a senior dealer at Israel Discount Bank, said, "The first bout of [dollar] selling was on what the central bank said. It was a trigger for profit taking." HSBC Israel said raising the interest rate is the only way to cool off the dollar. It predicted such a decision would follow the year’s first inflation report on Friday, which is expected to show the January CPI rose approximately 0.8 percent.
A 12-member delegation from the New York Police Department and the U.S. Army visiting Israel this week were treated to an unusual cultural experience at an event held in their honor by Jazz saxophonist Arnie Lawrence in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL reported. The event was as part of the Second Annual International Artists Conclave, titled "God Bless the Child," dedicated to solidarity with children around the world whose lives have been affected by war. The project is the result of cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian musicians.
ECONOMIC BRIEFS
* Israel Aircraft Industries’ exports totaled $2.195 billion in 2001, up 3.9
percent from 2000, HA’ARETZ reported. For the first time in the company’s
history, orders from the civilian sector equaled those from the military.
Some 51 percent of all new contracts made in 2001, which totaled close to
$2.9 billion, were from civilian sources. Shimon Eckhaus, IAI’s marketing
vice president, reported that new contracts from the military sector have
remained steady, while business with the civilian sector has risen sharply.
* Ford Motor Company has signed an agreement to begin implementing Israeli company Tecnomatix Technologies’ eMPower MPM (manufacturing process management) solutions, including software applications, service and maintenance, GLOBES reported. Tecnomatix said that this was in support of efforts to streamline and standardize the global manufacturing process definition throughout most of Ford’s lines of business. This agreement with Tecnomatix represents Ford’s first global implementation of a commercial MPM solution. The agreement covers the company’s Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Jaguar, Volvo, and Land Rover brands.
Israel Line is a daily summary of news items taken directly from the Israeli
media.
* WHITE
HOUSE LABELS PA TERRORISM SUPPORTER
* IDF: GOAL OF OPERATIONS ARE TO PREVENT KASSAM *ROCKETS FROM
HITTING ISRAEL
* EGYPT DEMOLISHES WALL SURROUNDING AMBASSADOR’S HOME IN
CAIRO
* SHALOM CUTS TAX ON SMALL ELECTRONIC ITEMS TO ENCOURAGE
DOMESTIC BUYING
* THE ISRAELI HOTEL UNION, IN COOPERATION WITH THE TEL AVIV
TOURISM
* ECONOMIC BRIEFS
WHITE
HOUSE LABELS PA TERRORISM SUPPORTER
During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer
referred to the Palestinian Authority as one of a number of regimes that "invite
terrorism and that practice terrorism," HA’ARETZ reported. He also linked
the PA to the countries that U.S. President George W. Bush described as an
"axis of evil" during his State of the Union address at the end
of January.
Following Bush’s meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Fleischer said that the president placed great importance on education in countries "known to foster terrorism" and gave the examples of Iran, Iraq, North Korea and the PA. "The President has always been very clear in all the statements he’s made – whether it was about North Korea, Iran, Iraq, or anywhere – the Palestinian Authority – that it’s the people that the United States is concerned with, that they are victims of regimes that invite terrorism and that practice terrorism," Fleischer said.
Meanwhile, according to THE JERUSALEM POST, Secretary of State Colin Powell told Congress on Wednesday that PA Chairman Yasser Arafat accepted responsibility as chairman of the PA for an attempt to smuggle over 50 tons of weapons from Iran. Powell noted, however, that Arafat did not accept personal responsibility for the operation.
After Israel intercepted the Karine A weapons ship, Powell demanded that Arafat admit responsibility for the operation and said the Palestinian leader should have known about it. Powell urged Arafat again to make arrests and said suspects should not be permitted to avoid long detention through "revolving doors."
IDF:
GOAL OF OPERATIONS ARE TO PREVENT KASSAM ROCKETS FROM HITTING ISRAEL
Israel Defense Forces Brig.-Gen. Israel Ziv reviewed IDF measures carried
out over the past several days to prevent Palestinians from firing Kassam
rockets into Israel, noting that the "aim is to narrow the freedom of
operation of cells who launch mortar bombs and rockets and to broaden our
ability to reach those who send the cells, their factories and infrastucture,"
IDF RADIO reported.
Ziv noted that during an IDF operation on Wednesday, "personal weapons, personal equipment, plenty of intelligence material, computers, vests and ammunition were found." He also noted that 18 people were detained and that Palestinian security officials opened fire on IDF troops. Five Palestinian policemen were killed.
According to HA’ARETZ, the IDF took up positions near Dir al-Balah early this morning to search for those responsible for firing three mortars on Israeli targets overnight. One landed in southern Gaza, a second near an outpost in the Gush Katif block in northern Gaza and a third near the Morag community. No injuries were reported.
In separate incidents, four Palestinians shot at Israeli troops overnight near Morag; the soldiers fired back, killing one. The other three escaped. The community of Atzmonah also came under fire, as did an IDF outpost near Neve Dekalim.
EGYPT
DEMOLISHES WALL SURROUNDING AMBASSADOR’S HOME IN CAIRO
Egyptian authorities ordered the Cairo Municipality to demolish sections of
a wall surrounding the home of newly-appointed Israeli Ambassador Gideon Ben-Ami,
THE JERUSALEM POST reported.
According to Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL, senior officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that bulldozers began the demolition this morning and expressed their dismay. Egyptian sources that the wall was illegally constructed.
SHALOM
CUTS TAX ON SMALL ELECTRONIC ITEMS TO ENCOURAGE DOMESTIC BUYING
Minister of Finance Silvan Shalom signed an amendment to the customs and purchase
tax tariffs, cutting a 45 percent tax on small electronic items, HA’ARETZ
reported. The amendment will take effect immediately and will decrease the
price of small radios, tape recorders, walkmans and discmans. Shalom’s decision
followed reforms to purchase taxes introduced by his predecessor Avraham Shochat
of the Labor Party, in August 2000.
The Government hopes that the cancellation of the tax will encourage Israelis to purchase items at home, rather than overseas. The sale of small electronic devices in Israel has fallen to almost zero in recent years because of the high tax.
THE ISRAELI HOTEL UNION, IN COOPERATION WITH THE TEL AVIV TOURISM Association, announced on Tuesday the establishment of a first of its kind International Gathering for Jewish singles slated to take place in Tel Aviv at the end of August 2002, YEDIOTH AHARONOT reported. "Summer of Love" will target single Jews ages 21-36 from around the world. If the conference is successful, the organizers hope to make it a yearly municipal tradition.
ECONOMIC
BRIEFS
* Elisra group simulator manufacturer BVR Systems is considering the acquisition
of a U.S. company to expand its activity in North America, GLOBES reported.
The United States accounts for half of the global simulator market. BVR sales
in 2001 totaled $40 million, compared with $25 million in 2000. BVR chairman
Avner Raz said that 95 percent of the company’s sales were overseas.
* Customer care and billing solutions provider Amdocs announced that it signed a five-year outsourcing agreement with Verizon Communications International, GLOBES reported. Verizon Communications International is the international wireline and wireless
Communications operations arm of U.S. telecom giant Verizon Communications. Pursuant to the agreement, Amdocs will provide Verizon International affiliates with its Ensemble software and support services solution. Amdocs says the solution will provide support for application and infrastructure development, maintenance services and management of Verizon International’s growing billing operations.
Israel Line is a daily summary of news items taken directly from the Israeli media
