1.  And third, with the peace deal with the Palestinians moving along, other doctrines of Israeli defense are being challenged.

2.  As Egyptian tanks swept across the Sinai Peninsula and plunged through Israeli defenses, a panicked Israeli government pleaded with the United States for help.

3.  A crucial yes vote was cast by Yitzhak Mordechai, the former Israeli defense minister, who was recently dismissed by Netanyahu.

4.  But later Wednesday the Israeli defense minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, warned that it would be back on if gunfire resumed.

5.  But later Wednesday, the Israeli defense minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, warned that it would be back on if gunfire resumed.

6.  By late December, Israeli defense officials were admitting to such attacks and saying that they had had a chilling effect on Palestinian violence.

7.  He has repeatedly justified the military action by the Israeli defense forces.

8.  Hezbollah, the militant Iranian-backed guerrilla group, is probing Israeli defenses daily, and the Israelis are on constant guard for attacks across the frontier.

9.  Israeli defense officials said the two had been killed after firing on an undercover surveillance unit that found them in a town in the West Bank, Beit Awwa.

10.  Israeli police are now wary of plots by Jewish extremists to kill the Israeli defense minister or Netanyahu -- the fate met by Rabin.