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In less than a week, 26,000 people collected NIS 23 million in bonds dating back as far as the 1960s, Postal Authority director- general Dan Nadiv said yesterday. Those due the money received letters from the Bank of Israel inviting them to go to a post office with their identity card. The average p...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Author Jerusalem Post Staff, Itim, Melissa Radler, Judy Siegel, Gil Hoffman, Allyn Fisher-Ilan
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 25.06.2001
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Arafat, Yasser
Rabinowitch, Haim
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Summary:In less than a week, 26,000 people collected NIS 23 million in bonds dating back as far as the 1960s, Postal Authority director- general Dan Nadiv said yesterday. Those due the money received letters from the Bank of Israel inviting them to go to a post office with their identity card. The average payment is NIS 844, but one 68- year-old woman from Tel Aviv collected NIS 78,000. The Bank of Israel, with help from the Postal Authority, is trying to return money to a total of 200,000 people. Judy Siegel The scorpion season has opened, Jerusalem's Bikur Holim Hospital said yesterday. Yael Greenberg was bitten by a yellow scorpion that managed to get into her pocketbook. It was the fourth such bite treated at Bikur Holim in the past two weeks. NEW YORK - More than 85 New York State officials sent a letter to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, demanding that Israel's existence be acknowledged in school textbooks distributed in September 2000 to first and sixth graders. The textbooks deny Israel's existence and state that Haifa, Jaffa, Nazareth, and Acre are in "Palestine."