The High Cost of Genocide: Inflation soars in Israel Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit the High Cost of Genocide: Inflation soars in Israel AFP via The Times of India - April 22, 2002 JERUSALEM: Consumer prices in Israel rose sharply over the first quarter of 2002, putting the annual inflation rate at 6.3 percent, the Central Statistics Bureau said Sunday. Inflation stood at 2.7 percent in 2001 and zero in 2000. The Palestinian intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation started that year. At the same time, Israel's Gross Domestic Product has nose-dived since September 2000, under the combined effect of the intifada and the global slump of the technology market. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytmid-04.25.02-18:14:16-7612