101.   The following year Rabin, who is also defence minister, carried out the first visit by an Israeli premier to Beijing.

102.   The Israeli premier also ordered the indefinite closure of Gaza and the West Bank to keep Palestinians out of Israel.

103.   The Israeli premier did not make any such statments during his July visit to Cairo during which he toured the region in a helicopter.

104.   The Israeli premier slammed the Bosnian Serb offensive against UN-safe enclaves in Bosnia.

105.   The Israeli premier was due to have talks later Tuesday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa.

106.   The Israeli premier was to meet Sunday with King Hussein of Jordan at the United Nations.

107.   The Israeli premier will then meet with his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi.

108.   The Israeli premier nonetheless went on to charge Arafat with failing to take real measures against the fundamentalists.

109.   The Israeli premier will also visit New York, where he will preside over a meeting of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, they said.

110.   The Israeli premier added that his country would carry out a population census in the West Bank and not the PLO which had said it would prepare election rolls.