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Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved
An Israeli company has for Use in Health Care
genetically created a The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for a
super-tomato. The new Florida company to market implantable chips that would
breed of tomatoes can
m'o~ide easy access to individual medical records. withstand a virus that
devastates tomato crops ~ injuries from errors in medical treatment.
every year the world And it expressed hope that such medical
over. Hazera Genetics, an Israeli seed breed- uses would accelerate the acceptance of
er, launched the world's first tomato strain ./.+-,++~ i -:=_+a:=": ~ ~4 i: under-the-skin ID chips as security and
that is immune to the 'Yellow Leaf Curl To- =~: ~ access-control devices.
mato Virus." It means the resistant breed Scott R. Silverman, chairman and
can be grown in open, ventilated hothouses chief executive of Applied Digital, said i
throughout the summer, which reduces costs II the ED.A. approval should help the
and improves the quality of the fruit, as well The approval, which the conlpan 3 company overcome "the creepy factor"
as the crop size. www.israelnationalnews.com announced yesterdaL is expected to bring of implanted tags and the suspicion it has
to public attention a simmering debate over stirred. "We believe there are far fewer people
a technology that has evoked Orwellian resisting this today," Mr. Silverman said.
overtones for privacy advocates and fueled But it is far from clear whether implanted
fears of widespread tracking of people with identification tags can overcome opposition
implmated radio frequency tags, even though from those who fear new levels of personal
that ability does not yet exist. surveillance and from some fundamentalist
Applied'Digital Solutions, based in Delray religious groups who contend that the tags
Beach, Fla., said that its devices, which it may be the "mark of the beast" referred to
calls VeriChips, could save lives and limit in the Book of RevelatiorL
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Millions of Locusts Invade Israel in Rare Swarm by Red Sea . +
.,-+ X-o,.+,,b+,-,oo+ - Israeli agriculture officials sent The locusts - - ..\]'~- ~r _.
were heading east crop dusters into the air to spray against the "Yad Vashem," the Holocaust .\lenlorial 111
locusts that swept in from North Africa in the towards Jordan • . Jerusalem, launches new website providing
and Saudi .M'abia first such invasion since 1959. :.- the names and biographical information
and not exl)ected In the Red Sea resort towrt of Eilat, residents of 3 million Jews killed by the Nazis during
to move to Israels reported clouds of locusts eating palm trees World War II. Fifty years of work compiling
more fertile north bare and wiping out entire gardens.. "It's like the plagu~.s ~)f 1.~H~t. said one resident. -r,,ut~,:+ information on Holocaust victims is now
..- ' computerized and available in English and
~~IIL Hebrew. "Yad Vashem undertook to retrieve the
names of theJewishvictims and to preserve their qt ! F~ ~ # \: 1 FRANCE'S CHIRAC MAKES HISTORIC TRIP
memol+'y," the website said. "This is the moral . ~ TO LIBYA TO MEET WITH GHADAFI
duty of'the Jewish people, our last respects to ~ ~ ~,~" : French President Jacques Chirac met with Moam-
the'victims." Eventuali}, the.museum hopes mar Ghadafi on the first visit to Libya by a French
to have information on all 6 million Jewish head of state in more than half a century, said
victims, http://v+ww yadvashem.org/ Wednesday that turbulent times were over and a
"true partnership" was ahead. Chirac said, "The
difficult period is happily behind us. Now, we have
entered a dvnan\]ic and positixe phase with the will to rebuild a strong dialogue and establish
a true partnership." >,,c~:,t~,d p,,.~ A 150 year
old Torah, Hizbollah Broadcasting Hate in France
hidden for a 28No;ember2004- Against the back- edly agreed not to broadcast ,,~++~-- -++'~ "-
half-century drop of continuing hate crimes hate programming. Enabling ikj\]\[g Ii,,,m~~
in tile formel" against French Jewry, France's AI-Manar to spew its pro-ter-
Soviet Union, Broadcasting Authority had rorist agenda will certainly fan
was paraded banned Hezbollah's M-Manar the flames of anti-Semitism in
through New viciously anti-Semitic and anti- Europe, encouraging further
York's streets on its way to its new home at a Israel TV for violating anti-in- violence against Jewish com-
citement laws. This week, the munities, and jeopardize Euro- I~rooklyn synagogue. "Our Torah has found its
EB.A. reversed its ban, giving pean Moslem families who fear home," said Senya Dovidov, in Russian,"We can
A1-Manar the license to broad- indoctrination of their children walk in the streets here with the Torah, without
cast into France and Europe via into an Islamic 'culture of fear of anybody." Dovidov's father kept it hidden
satellite after the Beirut-based death.' in their home in Riga, cawing the 'illegal
mouthpiece of the terrorist You can sign a petition against treqsure' to their weekly Sabbath service.
Hizbol\[ah organization alleg- this at: wu,w.wi~rentbal.com I, EREX:\ DOBXIK ~P
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