Heard on the radio: The PA is saying that the 13 hostage-takers from Bethlehem that are being deported will become "students" in Italy. The announcer quipped: "what exactly they would be studying - Italian 101?"

IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz addressed a group of new draftees and said that the UN Jenin Commission had already decided what it wanted to find out - and that cooperating would have been a mistake "of historic proportions".