Israel to use withheld Palestinian tax income to pay electric co debt
Jerusalem Reuters Israel plans to use tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay the PA’s nearly two billion shekel ($US544 million) debt to state-run Israel Electric Co (IEC), Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday. Israel collects tax on goods that pass through Israel into the occupied West Bank on […]
“Building something new”: New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organisation. FIONA MURPHY, of Religion News Service, reports…