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Subject: [BPR] - Book Blasts WWII Rabbis
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:22:53 -0500

Book Blasts WWII Rabbis
 
April 28, 2000

By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) - During the Holocaust, ultra-Orthodox
American rabbis focused on saving several hundred Polish
Talmudic scholars, ignoring the suffering of millions of
other Jews who were eventually murdered by the Nazis, a new
book charges.

The rabbis, organized as the Rescue Committee, feared that
if the tiny group of scholars and their students were lost,
the Jewish religion would vanish with them.

The group's narrow goal brought it into conflict with
mainstream American Jewish groups working to rescue as many
Jews as possible and to influence reluctant American
politicians to take action, wrote Holocaust historian and
Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff.

The book, "The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United
States to the Holocaust," is being released Tuesday to
coincide with Israel's annual memorial day for the 6
million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

-- more --

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000428/15/int-holocaust-rabbis-choose

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Subject: [BPR] - Filmmaker Plays Indiana Jones to Find Lost Tribes
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:28:43 -0500

Filmmaker Plays Indiana Jones to Find Lost Tribes
 
April 25, 2000
By Leah Eichler

http://news.excite.com/news/r/000425/10/entertainment-canada-losttribe
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Emmy Award-winning documentary
filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici says not even Harrison Ford's
Indiana Jones showed the audacity he did in going to search
for the lost tribes of Israel.

"Harrison Ford looked for the Lost Ark in 'Raiders of the
Lost Ark,' for the Holy Grail in 'Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom,' but even he did not dare look for the lost
tribes. But I did," Jacobovici said with a grin.

The investigative journalist went to Pakistan,
Afghanistan, India, Uzbekistan, China, the Middle East and
the Island of Djerba in Tunisia seeking descendants of the
lost tribes for his latest documentary, "Quest For The Lost
Tribes of Israel."

Proof of the tribes' continuing existence is important to
Jews and Christians alike. Christians believe the return of
the tribes to Israel will prepare the way for the second
coming of Christ while for Orthodox Jews the return will
signal messianic times. Some believe it will mean
Armageddon is at hand.

Jacobovici, wearing a khaki T-shirt and Arab-style head
covering in his Toronto office, does not seem overly
concerned about the end of the world. But he sees the lost
tribes of Israel as one of the great mysteries of Western
civilization, along with the Holy Grail and the Ark of the
Covenant, a mystery he is set on solving.

LOST TRIBES JUST BEYOND THE NEXT VALLEY?

"In medieval times it made sense to look for the lost
tribes because there were millions of them ... and it
seemed plausible that people could be searching and, just
behind that valley, there would be a kingdom with horses
and everything else," the filmmaker said.

"Today, when we feel we've been everywhere and satellite
photography can locate anything, it is not believable that
millions of people would have gone unnoticed in some
valley," he said -- that is, unless they are hiding in
plain sight.

Jacobovici already has some experience with lost tribes.
His first film, "Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews" (1983),
focused on Ethiopian Jews thought by some to be the lost
tribe of Dan.

"Talking about Jews in Africa back then was like talking
about Jews from the planet Mars. It did not fit people's
stereotypes so no one believed it. Then, in 1985, the
Mossad airlifted the Falashas into Israel, which made the
front pages everywhere with 'Lost Tribe Returns Home."'

Modern Jews are descended from the tribes of Judah, Levi
and Benjamin. Other tribes such as Reuven, Simeon,
Issachar, Zevulun, Menashe, Ephraim, Dan, Naphtali, Gad and
Asher were dispersed after being conquered by the
Assyrians, according to the Bible. The captive tribes were
scattered throughout the Assyrian domain and became the
stuff of legends.

Jacobovici maintains he is not the only person who has
ever searched for the lost tribes. He refers to "Sails of
Hope," a book by famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, which
argues that Columbus was not searching for spices when he
set sail for the Americas but for the lost tribes of Israel.

TRIBES NOT LOST, 'JUST OFF THE RADAR SCREEN'

Throughout the film, Jacobovici insists the tribes were
not lost, just "off the Western radar screen." And he says
they have been trying to bring themselves to the Western
world's attention for years, but no one was listening.

About 10 years ago, Jacobovici heard of Rabbi Eliyahu
Avichail in Jerusalem, who claimed he had made contact with
the lost tribe of Menashe on the India-Burma border.

"I thought, is this guy a wacko or what? So I paid a visit
to him in Israel, not knowing if I would find a rabbi with
an Indiana Jones hat. Instead, I found a very sane and
learned rabbi and asked, 'How do you know this is
Menashe?"' he said.

"He replied: 'Because that is what they call themselves."'

When the rabbi investigated the group's practices, he
concluded they were Israelite in nature and some members
have since converted to Judaism.

Jacobovici also investigated the group's claims, which he
described as "spontaneous Jewish combustion on the Indian-
Burma border." He decided to look at the Bible as a
"treasure map" to find the lost tribes, following a route
he believes the Israelites may have taken.

This led him to the Pathan people in Afghanistan. The
Muslim Pathans say they can trace their lineage to the
children of Israel and they maintain distinct tribal groups
such as Gaddoon, which sounds like Gad, one of the missing
tribes. They live near groups with names that sound
remarkably like Joseph, Isaac, Ephraim and Shimon -- other
lost tribes.

'PRE-RABBINIC JUDAISM'

"You have a bunch of tribes, all with Israelite-like
names, next to a mountain range called Sulieman, or
Solomon. And you could say, 'Well, they're Muslims, but I
think the fact that they're Muslim is proof of their
origins since they converted to a monotheistic religion
rather than to the Buddhists, Hindus and Zoroastrians that
surround them,"' Jacobovici insisted.

"To this day they practice their own cult and it's like
pre-rabbinic Judaism, with animal sacrifices and all."

The same applies to the Menmase, a group of Christians on
the India-Burma border who were surrounded for centuries by
Hindus and Buddists but quickly adopted Christianity.

"When you spoke to them and asked them why they adopted
Christianity, they said, 'Well, we knew the stories.' It's
a monotheistic thing. They have a pre-missionary song of
the sea splitting and going through it, just like the
Exodus story. Until the missionaries came, they were
sacrificing animals in high places, which is exactly what
the Israelites did."

Although naysayers in the film criticize its unscientific
nature, Jacobovici believes he has made a strong claim for
the existence of the missing tribes.

"I don't dismiss people's oral traditions. The fact that
they just had a pow-wow one day and decided to adopt
another history is incredible and unbelievable to me," he
said.

"At some point, the clustering of coincidences leads you
to believe. And unless you can come up with an explanation
as to why these coincidences are happening to these
specific peoples, the onus is on the skeptic to give us an
alternative scenario."

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Subject: [BPR] - Preview of Commemoration for 20th Century Martyrs
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:44:20 -0500

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=2182

28-Apr-2000 -- EWTN Vatican Update

PREVIEW OF COMMEMORATION FOR 20TH-CENTURY MARTYRS

VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- The day of commemoration for 20th-
century martyrs, an important Jubilee observance that will
take place in the Roman Coliseum on May 7, will have a
strong ecumenical flavor, the Vatican has told reporters.

The day of commemoration, which was suggested by Pope John
Paul II in Tertio Millennio Adveniente, will pay homage to
all of the century's martyrs, rather than naming
individuals. But the Vatican, working in close
collaboration with other Christian denominations, has
already produced a list of 12,692 individuals who died for
the faith in the 20th century.

At a press conference in Rome on April 28, Cardinal Roger
Etchegaray characterized the 20th century as "a century of
martyrs." And historian David Barret pointed out that more
than twice as many people had died for the faith in the
20th century as in the previous 19 centuries combined. The
prayer service in the Coliseum will be joined by
representatives from the Orthodox patriarchates of Moscow,
Romania, Alexandria, Armenia, and Cilicia; there will also
be Protestant participants from the Lutheran, Anglican,
Methodist, Adventist, Reformed, and Pentecostal churches.
Pope John Paul II will join these participants in a
"fraternal encounter" prior to the main service in the
evening.

Since 1995, a special commission has been collecting the
stories of 20th- century martyrs; it is this group which
has produced the list of 12,692 cases. But that list is
still growing, and the final compilation will not be
relayed to Pope John Paul II until sometime in the autumn.

To date, that list reportedly includes 1,111 people who
died in the former Soviet Union, and 8,670 who died in
other European countries-- most of them as victims of
totalitarian regimes. The list also includes 1706 martyrs
from Asia, 746 from Africa, 333 from the Americas, and 126
from Oceania.

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Subject: [BPR] - 'Speed Dating' aims to match Jewish singles
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 08:50:07 -0500

http://www.newsday.com/ap/entertainment/ap488.htm

'Speed Dating' aims to match Jewish singles

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (AP) -- The start of a long-lasting
relationship could take only seven minutes of conversation
in a coffee shop.

But during that span, the two people sitting across from
each other can't talk about their jobs or where they live,
and they can't give out their phone numbers.

Meet ''Speed Dating,'' a service for Jews who say they
can't find a Jewish mate.

With seven minutes on the clock, pairs at each table fire
questions at each other about goals, values and feelings on
Israel, trying to gauge if the stranger is a soul mate.

''One minute,'' the rabbi calls out.

Then time is up, and they pick up their lattes, swap seats
and start all over again; new table, new ''date.''

Born of the idea that people are too busy to date and that
intermarriage is among the greatest threats to Judaism,
Speed Dating lets singles size up a pool of potential
Jewish matches in less than an hour, then decide whether
they want a full-length date.

Participants write on a form whether they want to see a
person again. Organizers match up the dates and call the
participants with phone numbers.

The concept was developed by Aish HaTorah, an
international Jewish outreach program, and pitched to
chapters around the world. The first session was held in
Los Angeles in March 1999 and already boasts one marriage.

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. THREE JERUSALEM-AREA NEIGHBORHOODS IN DANGER
  2. TALKS IN EILAT
  3. EVACUATION IN HEVRON
  4. HA'ETZNI: DEMOCRACY DOESN'T OVERRIDE BASIC RIGHTS
  5. APPREHENSION IN MISGAV AM
  6. ARKIA REMAINS IN JERUSALEM
  7. POLICE COMMANDER TAKES ON ISRAELI-ARABS
  8. DESALINATION FUNDING

1. THREE JERUSALEM-AREA NEIGHBORHOODS IN DANGER
Prime Minister Barak's secret emissary, Yossi Ginosar, briefed Yasser
Arafat this morning on the upcoming transfer of Abu Dis, Azariyah, and
Swahara to Palestinian control. It was reported last night that the three
Arab villages outside Jerusalem would be handed over to the Palestinian
Authority. The Prime Minister is of the opinion that Israeli
confidence-building gestures such as this are vital for the negotiating
process.

MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) filed suit with the
Supreme Court on Friday against the involvement of Ginosar - a former GSS
Interrogation Department head - in the diplomatic process, given his
"conflict of interest." Ginosar is a part-owner of the Palestinian casino
in Jericho, and has other business ties with Arafat's millionaire economic
advisor, Muhammad Rashid.

Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, who featured prominently in Barak campaign ads
during last year's election campaign to convince voters that Barak would
not divide Jerusalem, has apparently changed his mind. Responding to
claims that Abu Dis is not part of Jerusalem's city borders, Olmert told
Arutz-7 today,
 "They claim that this means that they're not dividing Jerusalem.
Technically, they are correct, but to say that they are not dividing
Jerusalem is simply an illusion that I cannot accept. It's true that these
localities are not technically in Jerusalem, nor do they have any
particular emotional or historical religious attachment for us. But if
this is only an 'advance' [on the third withdrawal], then what will be left
for the withdrawal itself? It's clear that they will be receiving parts of
Jerusalem - this move cannot be interpreted in any other way, and this is
how the Palestinians will interpret it. This simply raises their
expectations, and then we'll be told that we won't be able to come to an
agreement without meeting their expectations... Let's not forget that
their main goal is to receive the real Jerusalem - the Temple Mount. So
here we go, giving them an area like Abu Dis that strategically overlooks
the Temple Mount, from where it is only hundreds of meters away, and then
they'll demand a corridor to the Temple Mount, such as that which Beilin
already promised them - where are we headed?"

Prime Minister Barak met this morning with the heads of the Oslo-resistant
parties in his coalition, Yisrael B'Aliyah and the National Religious
Party, on his intention to transfer the three Arab villages to the PA. NRP
leaders said that such a move will lead to the party's resignation from the
government, and Deputy Minister Sha'ul Yahalom said that only a miracle
will prevent the dissolution of the coalition in the event that the
transfer is implemented as planned. Yisrael B'Aliyah leader Natan
Sharansky was less vehement in his objections, but said that such a
transfer would be a "terrible mistake," and that "we are not glued to our
government seats."

2. TALKS IN EILAT
The next round of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority began
this morning in the Hilton Hotel in Israel's southern-tip port city of
Eilat. At issue: the framework for the final-status arrangement. Chief
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said beforehand, "We will not agree to
accept advance payments such as Abu Dis until the entire third withdrawal
is agreed upon." Sources in the Prime Minister's Office said that Barak
briefed head Israeli negotiator Oded Eran last night on where to 'show
flexibility,' with the goal of reaching an agreement quickly. The Likud
responded sharply to what it called "Barak's amateurish negotiating," in
which the Palestinians "already know that they will receive 80% of Judea
and Samaria, including Jerusalem neighborhoods."

3. EVACUATION IN HEVRON
IDF and police forces evacuated this morning some 100 Jewish Hevron
residents from part of Tel Romeida. They squatted in a makeshift structure
in an area that was purchased by Hevron Jews some 150 years ago. In
accordance with an agreement reached between the army and the residents,
the evacuation was carried out without force. Hevron spokesman David
Wilder said today, "We are happy that we were able to make a point, and
that is that if almost all of Hevron was transferred to the Arabs, why
can't we use the little bit that we still own?" The Hevron Jewish
Community plans to wage a legal struggle against the Civil Administration's
recent leasing of the Jewish-owned property to Arabs.

4. HA'ETZNI: DEMOCRACY DOESN'T OVERRIDE BASIC RIGHTS
An internal and highly-charged debate is being waged in Judea and Samaria
and within the nationalist camp as to how to respond to the threat of the
evacuation of Yesha settlements. MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union-Yisrael
Beiteinu) said that the soldiers are not enemies, as some in his camp had
called them, but brothers. Kiryat Arba resident Boaz Ha'etzni said, "We
see the attempt to remove us from our homes as an act of civil war, and in
a civil war, we will protect ourselves." Yesha Council secretary Shlomo
Filber said that Ha'etzni does not represent the Yesha populace.

Ha'etzni was speaking at a Thursday night meeting in a Jerusalem hotel of
the Yesha Council and extra-parliamentary nationalist-camp groups.
Represented there were Women in Green (www.womeningreen.org/), Gamla Shall
Not Fall Again (www.gamla.org.il/), Zo Artzeinu
(www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3188/), Dor Hemshekh
(www.dor.org.il/enter.html), the Jewish Community of Hevron
(www.hebron.org.il), and others. Operative decisions taken at the meeting
included: a series of demonstrations in Jerusalem, Eilat, and elsewhere,
against the government's intention to give away more of Yesha; renewed
efforts to return to the Maon farm; and consideration of a proposal by
Yesha Council member atty. Elyakim Ha'etzni (Boaz's father) to establish of
a list of non-Yesha Israelis who would be prepared to arrive on short
notice at Yesha communities to prevent their uprooting.

"What is a man supposed to do," asked Boaz Ha'etzni at the Thursday night
conference, "if a democratic law is passed by the Knesset, and approved in
a national referendum, allowing the police to come to his house and take
away his daughter?... There are things that we simply cannot accept, and
we will respond in kind... I will adjust my defense in accordance with how
the soldiers arrive [to carry out an evacuation]." He explained that
statements of this nature are "not meant in a negative sense, but simply to
correct a governmental misconception - the government thinks that uprooting
settlements will go over peacefully, and I'm coming to inform them that it
will not go over peacefully."

Arutz-7's Ariel Kahane spoke at length on the topic with MK Zevulun Orlev
(NRP) and Kiryat Arba attorney Elyakim Ha'etzni. Orlev:
 "I very much disagree [with Boaz]. We must not allow the struggle for the
Yesha enterprise to be controlled by this extreme right-wing, who have only
caused damage until now... Their style of calling upon soldiers to refuse
to carry out 'illegal' orders will isolate the settlers from the public,
and only cause damage. I think that the Yesha Council should continue with
its policy of working to convince, together with the right-wing parties...
and do their best within the framework of public debate and with the
consent of the majority of the public to ensure that the settlements should
not be harmed. If the struggle is left for the extremists, I am afraid of
what may happen."

"Is it not legitimate for people to say that they will defend their homes?"
asked Kahane. Orlev:
 "I'm sorry, but if someone says that if a government decides something
that is very much against his will, he will call upon the soldiers to
refuse orders... I think that they have gone too far, and I cannot see
myself joining these people in their activities on behalf of Yesha. Their
way will cause their isolation in the public eye... What must be done
instead is that we must roll up our sleeves, and work in a democratic way
to influence. The only way that will work is the way led by the NRP with
the outposts compromise [last November] - we must try to reach agreement,
to compromise, to find the way that the Yesha enterprise should have to pay
the lowest price. Without widespread public agreement, nothing will work.
This is a democracy and there are rules to the game and we have to abide by
them."

"Don't the rules include not removing people from their homes?" asked
Kahane. Orlev:
 "We are in fact against the evacuation of even one community, and if it
happens, Heaven forbid, I think we should leave the government. But we are
one nation, and we will not be able to exist with an approach like
Ha'etzni's that calls for the refusal to carry out orders and the like."

Kahane then turned to Elyakim Ha'etzni, and asked for his response. "I am
not willing to respond," Ha'etzni said. "I told you in advance that I
refuse to get dragged into an argument with people in my own camp, as I
refuse to provide a show for the left-wing. I still see Zevulun Orlev as a
member of the positive, Zionist camp, despite his unpleasant words.
Regarding his prediction of what will bring damage, he has his evaluation,
which I respect, and I would hope that he would respect my evaluation that
happens to oppose his... Let me simply take one sentence of his, which
will show why there is no room for argument [between us]. He said that we
must try to find the way for Yesha to pay the lowest price possible within
the framework of a national consensus. This means that he would be willing
to allow the evacuation of whatever number of Yesha communities that
persuasion and the like will not be able to prevent. His opinion of
democracy is therefore so diametrically opposed to mine that we simply
cannot even argue about it. Let me simply present my position: If I'm in
a boat with two other people, and the food runs out, and the other two vote
democratically to eat me, I will not accept this democratic decision. I
will either jump from the boat, or eat them, or I don't know what - but
their democratic decision will not be binding for me. Similarly, Orlev
would not accept a democratic decision that would forbid him from keeping
the Sabbath. I don't know what he would say about a democratic vote to
stop Jewish immigration to Israel, for instance. The question, then, is
where is the red line... The nations of the world decided, in the recent
Yugoslavian war, that ethnic cleansing - the removal of people from their
homes - was something that cannot be decided upon by democratic vote, and
they therefore went to war against the country that decided this, and
thousands of people were killed, simply in order to return these people to
their homes - even though it had been democratically decided!"

"But if you take this position, this will lead to civil war!" contended
Kahane. Ha'etzni:
 "This simply shows the extent to which the distorted thinking of those who
have gotten used to being the fifth wheel of Mapai [the forebears of
today's Labor party] has taken us. Those who send an army to take maybe
100,000 men women and children from their homes, this is not civil war?!
But if these same people don't submit to being taken out of their homes,
then they're the ones causing a civil war?! This simply cries out to the
heavens!"

Col. Moshe Leshem, of Gamla Shall Not Fall Again, told Arutz-7's Ron Meir
today that use of the term "evacuation of Yesha settlements" is misleading,
and that "ethnic cleansing" would be a better and more accurate choice.
The full interview with Leshem can be heard on Arutz-7's website at
<www.a7.org/engclips/300400/leshem-yesha.ram.

5. APPREHENSION IN MISGAV AM
Tensions in the north continue to mount, following the suicide car-bomb
explosion in an SLA outpost Friday, in which three SLA soldiers were
killed. IDF officials have expressed concern that similar Hizbullah
assaults may be aimed at IDF troops in the weeks ahead. South of the
security zone, striding Israel's northern border, residents of Kibbutz
Misgav Am held a protest on Friday against the upcoming withdrawal's
ramifications upon their town. Kibbutz secretary Chanan Rubinsky told
Arutz-7 today, "We don't have all the exact details, but what we do know
for sure is that Israel is returning to the 1980 border, and that the
kibbutz fence - which is one meter from my home - will be the
Israel-Lebanon border. This is simply total insanity."

Rubinsky explained that a 1980 terrorist attack at Misgav Am prompted the
army to pave a road 400 meters from the edge of the kibbutz that marked off
a security buffer zone. "With the upcoming withdrawal, we will return to
the old border, which will traumatize many of our residents," Rubinsky
said. He noted that the Kibbutz as an entity would not take any measures
other than "sounding our protest," but that individuals would have to
decide what to do on their own. "I imagine that some will walk around
armed, while others might feel that they have no choice other than to
relocate southward, where the fear of daily attacks is not so acute."

6. ARKIA REMAINS IN JERUSALEM
Israel's domestic airline company, Arkia, has changed its mind, and will
continue to operate flights to and from Jerusalem's Atarot airport. Arkia
Chairman Izzy Borovich said today that Knesset Members Ophir Pines (Labor)
and Nachum Langental (NRP) had promised to act to compensate the company
for losses incurred by its Atarot operations.

7. POLICE COMMANDER TAKES ON ISRAELI-ARABS
Northern Police District Commander Alik Ron had some scathing criticism of
the Israeli-Arab public this afternoon. He said that this sector has taken
a sharp turn towards national extremism, under the leadership of Arab
Knesset Members and municipal leaders, and the Islamic Movement. "Israel's
leaders are mistaken by thinking that if they close their eyes, the
extremism will disappear," he said. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that
Commander Ron, speaking at a gathering of police officers summing up their
1999 activities, said that Israeli-Arab media call for the liberation of
lands even at the expense of bloodshed. Referring to the recent
Israeli-Arab student protests, he said, "It's inconceivable that the police
can't enter the campuses and restore order when Arab students wave PLO
flags and chant anti-Israel slogans." Ron said, "I know that what I have
said here is harsh, and that it may even prevent me from becoming the next
Police Commissioner."

8. DESALINATION FUNDING
A Finance Ministry economics committee meeting recently approved, in
principle, recommendations calling for the establishment of the Israel's
first major seawater desalination plant. So reports business correspondent
Seth Vogelman. The committee decided to allocate $750 million to construct
water purification and desalination facilities. The money will be used to
purify waste water for use in agriculture, the desalination or purification
of wells, and the desalination of sea water. The initial tender for a
desalination facility will specify that it should be capable of supplying
5,000 cubic meters of water per day. Companies contending for the tender
will have to prove that they have already developed a similar facility that
has been operational for at least two years.

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