71.   If Peres is returned to power, fears by fervent Jewish settlers will reach a crescendo, as David Wilder, a settler spokesman, makes clear.

72.   In Burin, Jewish settlers enraged by the attack Thursday in Itamar set fire to cars and killed a Palestinian on their way home from the Itamar funerals.

73.   In a day of interviews throughout Israel and the West Bank, only the Jewish settlers were treating the summit as a potentially pivotal event.

74.   In Israel and the West Bank, Jewish settlers and hawkish Israelis set up burning roadblocks and pummelled Palestinian cars with stones.

75.   In Gaza, Jewish settlers stacked sandbags and built other fortifications.

76.   In Nablus, two Jewish settlers suspected of being involved in the killing there were detained for questioning, the Israeli police said.

77.   In Hebron, a heated meeting between Jewish settlers and Israeli security officials was interrupted when shooting broke out.

78.   In the West Bank, Israelis and Palestinians held funerals for a Jewish settler and a Palestinian farmer killed Monday in apparent tit-for-tat attacks.

79.   In the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip, Jewish settlers live defiantly amid the sand dunes in isolated compounds.

80.   Israel on Wednesday eased its blockade of the Gaza Strip, which it had imposed on Monday after a Jewish settler was killed by Palestinians.