11.   Deri, Hanegbi and Lieberman also are under threat of indictment, according to Israeli media reports.

12.   Foreign Minister Shimon Peres called Powell and, according to Israeli media, said the friction stemmed from a misunderstanding, rather than any misdeed.

13.   From the beginning, the Israeli media have drawn comparisons between the scandal and Watergate.

14.   Gen. Dan Harel, the chief of Israeli media operations, scoffed at suggestions that the arms might have been intended for Hezbollah rather than for the Palestinians.

15.   He and his aides attacked the news team and the entire Israeli media for spreading irresponsible and damaging allegations and suggested the stories were politically motivated.

16.   However, Israeli media reported Friday that Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer had ordered his generals to reevaluate the battle plan.

17.   In another incident, Israeli media reported that police had arrested four Jewish men allegedly planning a bombing attack against Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem.

18.   Israeli media had earlier reported the bomber could have been a woman.

19.   Israeli media have reported in recent days that Netanyahu and Labor Party leader and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres have discussed forming a national unity government.

20.   Israeli media reported the details of how three Palestinian gunmen managed to kill six of the eight soldiers manning a checkpoint in the West Bank Tuesday night.