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.
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.
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.
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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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 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.
Tensions have risen in the West Bank following the death from cancer of a Palestinian jailed in Israel.
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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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 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.
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.
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.
The United States welcomed the Israeli move, but urged Israel to pull out of the other Palestinian-controlled areas in the West Bank.
Moreover, it tends to obfuscate the central plank of Mr Mitzna's platform, which is that if the Palestinians refuse to negotiate Israel must act unilaterally, pulling out of all of Gaza and most of the West Bank and building a security fence to separate itself from the Palestinian territories.
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.
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.
These negotiations will be conducted among Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza.
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.
Yasser Arafat could unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, but this would be seen as a hostile move by Israel which has said it would respond by annexing parts of the West Bank.
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