Israel is building 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank and their continued growth could make a viable Palestinian state impossible, the Peace Now group said on Wednesday. The anti-settlement watchdog said the number of settlements had not risen in 2006 but their population rose by 5 percent -- three times the growth in Israel.
"The settlement blocs are becoming bigger and bigger and actually getting deeper into the West Bank," Peace Now director general Yaariv Oppenheimer told Reuters.
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Ann Barzel, a dance writer and historian whose tenacity and passion for the art form were legendary, died on Feb. 12 in Chicago. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by George Dorris, a dance historian and friend.
Ms. Barzel liked to say she started her career at 9 when she looked up the word “dance” in an encyclopedia. Soon after, she said in a 1996 interview in The New York Times, she began to study “a mild sort of ballet” for 25 cents a week at the Jewish Settlement House in Des Moines, where she grew up.
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