11.  Israeli defense officials said the Palestinians were warned by telephone to evacuate government buildings because an attack was imminent.

12.  Moshe Arens, the Israeli defense minister, visited both Boeing and Lockheed earlier this month.

13.  Moshe Arens, then the Israeli defense minister, was especially critical of Washington, and said his country needed a spy satellite of its own.

14.  Some Israeli defense experts and, recently, politicians say the assassinations only anger the Palestinians and do little to quell violence.

15.  Take, for example, the lawsuit filed by Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli defense minister, against Time magazine.

16.  That official and the Israeli defense minister have said the government has made no decision about whether to enter Gaza.

17.  The Israeli defense minister asked Washington to intercede with Syria, which has considerable control over events in southern Lebanon.

18.  The Israeli defense minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, is inclined to lift the travel restriction on Arafat, a senior Israeli official said.

19.  The Israeli defense minister, Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, said in a statement that Israel regretted the loss of civilian lives.

20.  The key compromise idea came from the Israeli defense minister, Yitzhak Mordechai, officials said, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sold it to the Palestinians.