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Highlights the January 15, 1997 decision to withdraw Israeli forces from the city of Hebron and rural areas of the West Bank by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Effects on Israeli and Palestine; Role played by United States special convoy Dennis Ross.

Focuses on the possibility of the Israeli army withdrawing from Hebron in the West Bank. Previous date of withdrawal; History of conflict between the Arabs and Israelis; Plans of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to expand Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Reports on the slated return of US Middle East envoy Dennis Ross to Washington, D.C. after the failure of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to reach an agreement on a partial Israeli withdrawal from Mount Hebron in West Bank. Factors behind the failure of the talks.

Reports on the rejection of calls by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, for the removal of Israeli troops out of the Arab-populated areas of the West Bank town of Hebron. Who the calls for the troops removal were made by; Optimism expressed by Netanyahu for the resumption of peace talks with Israel; Highlight of Netanyahu's visit to Washington in September 1996; Reason for the decision to not remove the troops by Netanyahu.

Reports on the exchange of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers for the remains of 123 Arab combatants, along with the trading of captives between Islamic guerrillas and Israeli forces. Who oversaw the exchange; Influence of the exchange in the quest for peace; Uncertain fate of Ron Arad, an Israeli solider.

Reports on the debate over whether Israel deliberately shelled a United Nations (UN) base in southern Lebanon that killed about 100 civilian refugees. UN investigation concluding that Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets into Israel before the shelling.

Informs about some development in the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Palestinian Authority on a plan to hold elections and withdraw Israel's army from the West Bank, as reported on July 1, 1995. US President Bill Clinton administration's plan to hold signing ceremony of the agreement in White House; Provisions of the plan; Its controversial issues; Views of political observers on the same.

Informs about PLO leader Yasser Arafat's agreement to a two-step Israeli pullback from the West bank. Palestinian elections scheduled; Dispute over redeployment timetable; Details of the first phase of the agreement.

Informs about the opening of talks between army chiefs of Israel and Syria on June 27, 1995 in Washington, to conclude an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights.

Reports that on January 25, 1995, three Shiite Muslim guerrillas were killed by ambushed Israeli troops in Marjuyun, Lebanon. Israeli soldiers wounded in initial attack; Who claimed attack; What Hezbollah and its radical Palestine allies swore to do.

Reports that the slaughter of more than 100 Lebanese refugees by Israel, has made Israeli military and political leaders change their resolve to press Hezbollah guerrillas. Comments from Israel's Prime minister Shimon Peres; Reaction of Israeli Arabs to massacre.

Reports on Lebanese residents reaction as children who were the victims of Israel's April 18, 1996, artillery shells attack on a United Nations compound in southern Lebanon were brought into Tyre's three hospitals. How the children were brought in; Eyewitnesses accounts of the explosion.

Reports that in the wake of the explosion of Israeli artillery shells in a United Nations (U.N.) compound in southern Lebanon, questions relating to Israelis dependence on high-technology weapons in the battles along their northern border have surfaced. Details on the questions raised; When the explosion took place; Remarks by Timor Goksel, spokesman for the U.N. forces in Lebanon; Types of artillery used by the Israelis.

Reports on United States (US) President Bill Clinton's April 18, 1996, call for a cease-fire in Israel's week-old military campaign against Lebanese based guerrillas of the Islamic extremist group Hezbollah. What prompted the abrupt policy shift; United States' policy to give Israel's total support; Clinton's visit to Russia after several airborne conference calls; Hezbollah's response to Israel's tightening pressure.

Reports that Israelis are reveling in their army's punishing thrust into Lebanon, after Lebanon's attacks on Israel for occupying a strip of southern Lebanon that it calls a security zone. Pressure on the Israeli government to take action against Lebanon.

Reports on Israel's intensification of its attacks on Lebanese guerrillas in Beirut and South Lebanon on April 12 1996. Number of people who were killed; Lebanese civilians' flight from their homes; Israel's escalation of his campaign against Hezbollah, or Party of God; Hezbollah's firing of rockets at towns in northern Israel's Galilee region.

States that Israeli security forces have detained 370 Palestinians in occupied areas of the West Bank. How Palestinians were captured; Launching of a suicide-bombing campaign by Israel.

Reports on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank town of Tulkarm. Reactions of Palestinians to withdrawal; When Israel took control of town; Population of Tulkarm; Conditions of Palestine Liberation organization-Israel peace deal.

Reports on the near completion of measures to hand over the village of Jenin, and the redeployment of Israeli troops in the West Bank. Tour of Jenin by commander of Palestinian security forces in the West Bank; Date of completion of withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Reports about withdrawal of Israeli troops as per the accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation and discussion on success of Self-rule in Jenin. Details of self-rule in Gaza Strip; Remarks by various Palestine defense officials; Comments by Palestinians.

Reports on the announcement for withdrawal of the Israeli troops for the West Bank town of Jenin to begin on October 25, 1995. Remarks on same by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

Reports on six Israeli soldiers killed in an armored vehicle by Muslim guerrilla group called Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Remarks by Israeli defense personnel; Brief on role of Syria in Hezbollah activities.

Informs about the killing of some Israeli soldiers due to a militant attack by Hezbollah guerrillas in Southern Lebanon. Details of the incident; Assessment of the ambush by Israeli diplomats.

Describes the withdrawal of Israeli troops on October 10, 1995 from Salfit town, West Bank, and other areas after the Israel-PLO West Bank treaty. Release of Palestinian prisoners from Nablus; Protest by female prisoners; Palestinian celebrations after Israeli withdrawal; Clashes between Israeli soldiers and citizens of Salfit in 1989.

Informs about the withdrawal of Israeli troops and closure of offices at its military government in West Bank according to the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres as on October 1, 1995. Action initiated after the signature of an accord by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Washington.

Examines the potential effect on Israeli soldiers of a Rabbi ruling given on July 12, 1995 forbidding Jews to withdraw from Biblical land. Possible deal for Palestinian rule in the West Bank as incitement for disobedience from orthodox Israeli soldiers; Army measures to check mutinous tendencies.

Reports on the insistence by a group of Orthodox rabbis to the Israeli troops to reject the orders to withdraw armies from the occupied West Bank under terms of Israel's self-rule accord with Palestinians as on July 12, 1995. Comment of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and President Ezar Weizman on the declaration. INSET: US activists held by Israel..