1.   Yehudit Tayar, spokeswoman for the settlers council, said the group could spend millions of dollars, if necessary, on a campaign against concessions in the talks.

2.   Arnon said the settler council in Hebron sent a letter to Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai Sunday urging him to delay the opening until better security arrangements were in place.

3.   The head of the settler leadership council, Benny Kashriel, said it was not certain that the attackers were settlers.

4.   The settlers council rejected the report.

5.   The Yesha settlers council argues they must plan for additional growth.

6.   Hundreds of members of the rightwing National Religious Party and the more moderate Memad movement as well as the West Bank settlers council voiced their shock at the murder.

7.   A self-appointed Jewish settlers council meanwhile met Wednesday and expressed dissatisfaction with the hard-line prime minister they helped place in office.

8.   Aharon Domb, spokesman for the Gaza and West Bank settlers council, said the soldiers were wounded by Palestinian gunmen.

9.   Settlers councils distribute the buildings illegally and hook them up to the electricity and water networks as well as the sewerage system.

10.   The attack was also condemned by the Gaza and West Bank settlers council which also said it was shocked.