Their main target was the Bank of Israel's Web site, but they couldn't shut it down.
IDefense spotted jihadist hackers unsuccessfully trying to take down the Bank of Israel's Web site (see box, p. 76).
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.
Quitting Gaza, the Palestinians fear, will simply give him diplomatic cover, and free resources he can concentrate on his longer-term strategy, which they claim is to use the security wall to carve out a Greater Israel on large chunks of the West Bank, the bit of occupied territory Israel really cares about and where there are settlers in their hundreds of thousands, not just thousands.
An old-style democrat, he is also a hardliner who argues for a Greater Israel that would embrace the whole of Palestine, with the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza given full citizenship of Israel.
They include Israel annexing up to 4% of the West Bank in exchange for an equivalent chunk of Israel.
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In any event, the Fatah-dominated PA still controls only limited areas of the West Bank, as Israel keeps a tight grip on much of the land.
But it will be a matter of time before al Qaeda and other Saudi-backed Islamist groups use this territory - and whatever parts of the West Bank Israel foolishly decides to surrender next - to prepare their attacks on the rest of us.
Travelling around the holy sites of Bethlehem is made difficult by the West Bank Barrier, a security wall built by the Israeli army to seal off the West Bank from the rest of Israel.
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.
The stage will then be set for the ultimate defeat of Fatah by Hamas in the West Bank as well, putting all of Israel within range of its weapons.
They include the head of West Bank intelligence, Tawfiq Tirawi, accused by Israel of involvement in terrorist activities, and Mahmud Damra, the leader of Mr Arafat's Force 17 bodyguard.
Israeli police have evicted Palestinian and international activists from an area of the West Bank where Israel is planning fresh settlement building.
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Earlier on Wednesday, he visited Qasr el Yahud - the site on the West Bank of the River Jordan where Israel says Jesus was baptised.
The Palestinians resisted this because they had good reason to suspect that Israel's then government was interested less in reaching a final agreement than in keeping the bulk of the West Bank under Israel's permanent control.
The settler movement as a whole sees disengagement as the thin edge of a wedge that will eventually lever Israel out of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem as well.
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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The Bush spokesman walked a delicate balance, trying not to criticize Israel's decision to build a fence along the West Bank to keep Palestinian suicide bombers out of Israel, but making it clear the administration did not necessarily think that is a "constructive" step.
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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If Israel is not in danger of losing its Jewish majority even if it retains control over the West Bank, then Israel may retain all options on the table for ultimate resolution of the conflict from yielding the territory to a peaceful Palestinian neighbor through power-sharing in the areas to full incorporation of the areas into Israel.
They strongly oppose the colonisation of the West Bank and admit that, in practice, Israel's treatment of its Arab citizens has fallen far short of the standard that should be demanded of a liberal democracy.
Unlike Mr Obama's two predecessors, George Bush and Bill Clinton, the president said that building should stop even in the suburbs of East Jerusalem and in the West Bank settlement blocks that are likely to become parts of Israel under a peace treaty, in return for land swaps to compensate the Palestinians.
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In the West Bank, Israel confiscated large chunks of agricultural land where settlements were eventually built.
Jordanian officials fear that the frustrated travellers could be the first trickle in a flood of refugees born of Israel's re-occupation of the West Bank.
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.
Allowing such weapons and those who would wield them free rein in much of the West Bank could cripple Israel 's critically important tourist industry, its economy and over time the country as a whole.
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