JERUSALEM -- On June 9, 1967, two days after Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops reached the Western Wall, Anwar al-Khatib, the Jordanian official responsible for administering the Jerusalem district, was whisked away to the Ambassador Hotel in the eastern part of the city for a meeting with IDF General (res.) Chaim Herzog, who only minutes earlier had been appointed the military governor of the West Bank.

Israeli Arab Islamic leader Sheikh Raed Salah told a rally in Jerusalem that the "Israeli occupation" of the city will soon vanish.

Poverty and unemployment in the rural West Bank are bound to increase unless Palestinians can regain access to markets cut off by Israel, a United Nations report said on Thursday.

MANDELA MEETS SAUDI LEADERS RIYADH – The former South African president, Nelson Mandela, met Saudi crown prince and de facto ruler Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz on Tuesday.