AN ISRAELI FIRST GRADER ATTENDS THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IN SEDEROT
Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter talks to first grader, Egnat Egav, 6, on the first day of school in Sderot in southern Israel, September 2, 2007. Schools in Sderot have been hit by rockets from the nearby Gaza Strip. (UPI Photo/Debbie Hill)
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The cost to operate Israel's Iron Dome rocket-intercepting system during Operation Pillar of Defense last month was about $27 million, an official said.
Israel has begun mobilizing 16,000 troops, a move that could signal plans to invade the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip amid a swelling rocket barrage in which Iranian-made missiles hit the edges of metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel's largest urban conurbation.
Israel resumed airstrikes in Gaza Thursday night after two rockets struck near Tel Aviv and three Israelis died in the south, military authorities said.
Israeli leaders gave a mixed reception to calls by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to renew peace talks with Israel.
Israeli military jets fired on a Hamas training camp in Gaza but did not hurt anyone, military officials said.
Israel's defense minister said Friday that Israel needs to develop a better missile-deterrence strategy against rockets fired from Gaza.
Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter banned the Palestinian Authority from holding events to celebrate Jerusalem as a "capital of Arab culture."
Israeli's internal security minister says right-wing Jewish extremism remains a threat 13 years after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
A top Israeli general avoided a Palestinian mortar attack Sunday in the western Negev region, officials said.
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