The letters editor writes: You are correct in your calculations. The second article should have read, “only about 170 couples, or 3.8% of Israeli couples who marry abroad each year,” and the third article should, indeed, have said “sales” rather than earnings. Regarding the first article, the figures accurately reflected the numbers posted on the CBS Web site; the fault lay in the interpretation. The entire population of Judea and Samaria was 290,400 for 2008 and 301,200 for the first nine months of 2009, not for the entire year. The 4.9% increase in growth in 2009 is accurate, but does not relate to the 10,800 differential between those two numbers; rather it pertains to data not provided by the CBS, which compared the data at the end of September 2009 with that figure at the end of September 2008. The same paradigm should be used to explain the population numbers and percent increases for Modi’in Illit, Beitar Illit and Ma’aleh Adumim. (The CBS could not explain why it had a differential of 10,700, instead of 10,800 between their 2009 and 2008 population figures.)A modest compromiseSir,– Some feel it’s important for Israel’s image that people appear inpublic in the nude (“Photo finish,” March 14) and others believe thatwe require sex-segregated buses (“1,000 protest mehadrin lines incapital,” March 14).Surely an obvious compromise would be to allow public nudity only on sex-segregated buses. YONATAN SILVER Jerusalem
March 15: 'Insulting criticism'
Clinton's phone call is a sign that this administration doesn't accept Israel’s democratic right to make decisions about the nation’s citizens and communities.
The letters editor writes: You are correct in your calculations. The second article should have read, “only about 170 couples, or 3.8% of Israeli couples who marry abroad each year,” and the third article should, indeed, have said “sales” rather than earnings. Regarding the first article, the figures accurately reflected the numbers posted on the CBS Web site; the fault lay in the interpretation. The entire population of Judea and Samaria was 290,400 for 2008 and 301,200 for the first nine months of 2009, not for the entire year. The 4.9% increase in growth in 2009 is accurate, but does not relate to the 10,800 differential between those two numbers; rather it pertains to data not provided by the CBS, which compared the data at the end of September 2009 with that figure at the end of September 2008. The same paradigm should be used to explain the population numbers and percent increases for Modi’in Illit, Beitar Illit and Ma’aleh Adumim. (The CBS could not explain why it had a differential of 10,700, instead of 10,800 between their 2009 and 2008 population figures.)A modest compromiseSir,– Some feel it’s important for Israel’s image that people appear inpublic in the nude (“Photo finish,” March 14) and others believe thatwe require sex-segregated buses (“1,000 protest mehadrin lines incapital,” March 14).Surely an obvious compromise would be to allow public nudity only on sex-segregated buses. YONATAN SILVER Jerusalem