Their main target was the Bank of Israel's Web site, but they couldn't shut it down.
D-marks, the Bank of Israel has repeatedly been forced to sell shekels to keep the currency from bursting through the band.
But at the same time, the Bank of Israel, the central bank, wants to lower inflation to the 3-4% range, close to that in other wealthy countries.
What we do know is that he first made his mark in banking, serving as CEO of First International Bank of Israel from 1978 to 1986.
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In addition, substantial amounts of national wealth remain concentrated in conglomerates controlled by a small number of powerful families, something that concerns policy makers as senior as the governor of the Bank of Israel.
The Bank of Israel released a statement last Tuesday saying that, based on information from credit card companies, only around 15, 000 credit card numbers were exposed and those credit cards were blocked for use in Internet and phone purchases.
The U.S. has not spoken publicly about possible compromises in recent days, though there has been some speculation it would propose a partial construction stop in the West Bank heartland, east of Israel's separation barrier.
Earlier on Wednesday, he visited Qasr el Yahud - the site on the West Bank of the River Jordan where Israel says Jesus was baptised.
One reason is that the current repression of Hamas in the West Bank looks like a repetition of the Fatah-Israel collaboration in the mid-1990s, when Hamas was trying to disrupt the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the late Yasser Arafat's Fatah.
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Mahmoud Zahar, for instance, fondly recalls taking the train from Gaza to his mother's hometown of Ismailiya, on the far bank of the Suez Canal, before Israel's 1967 occupation.
He cannot count on a similar level of official emollience from the authorities of Israel or the West Bank.
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Stanley Fischer, the governor of Israel's central bank and former number two at the IMF, has vast experience of international economics and financial crises.
His advisers included Stanley Fischer, now head of Israel's central bank, and Rudiger Dornbusch, a German economist known for his work on currency markets.
President Bush has wrapped up his three-day tour of Israel and the West Bank, where he pushed the Israelis and Palestinians to forge a peace agreement under his watch.
On Thursday, Israel said it had detained a truck driver from the West Bank town of Nablus, whom it accused of smuggling dozens of weapons from Jordan to Israel under boxes of vegetables.
And now there is a criminal probe of Olmert's role in the privatization of Israel's second largest bank when he was finance minister.
Tensions have risen in the West Bank following the death from cancer of a Palestinian jailed in Israel.
In 1967, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff determined that Israel needed the West Bank and Golan Heights to assure its security from conventional threats.
He also stepped through Israel and the West Bank with a fair degree of agility.
Obama has visited Israel, the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Jordan and several other Middle Eastern and European countries.
When talking about Palestine, the speaker is referring to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that includes the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinian lands of the West Bank and Gaza.
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His death comes a week before US President Barack Obama is due to visit Israel and the West Bank, but with little optimism of a resumption of the Middle East peace talks which collapsed in 2010, our correspondent adds.
As part of this cooperation, Israel is supplying Gaza and the West Bank with H1N1 vaccinations for those who make the religious journey.
But Israel appears ready to cede up to 92% of the West Bank.
The focus was Israel's plan to withdraw from parts of the occupied West Bank unilaterally, if it decides it can't negotiate a settlement with the Palestinians.
Jordan and Egypt worry that, if the Gaza-West Bank split persists, Israel will eventually try to dump responsibility for the sundered halves of Palestine on them.
The hope was that, over a weekend of deliberations, Israel and the Palestinians would at last sign the long-delayed interim deal, including Israel's withdrawal from a further 13% of the West Bank.
These negotiations will be conducted among Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza.
In December a Polish foundation brought schoolchildren from Poland, Germany, the West Bank and Israel together to re-enact historical trials, including Nuremberg, as part of a project about international justice.
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The resumption of revenue transfers comes days after Barack Obama's first visit as US president to Israel and the West Bank, and follow-up meetings by his Secretary of State John Kerry.
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