despite truce and opening the border crossings.

Reservists of the Rabbinical Corps are working to exhume about 200 decomposed bodies of Hezbollah terrorists buried in Israel. Instead of burning the terrorists in swine skins, Israeli government exchanges them for some missing parts of dead Israeli soldiers. A grisly business, indeed.

The Coastal Aquifer dropped below the black line: pumps are above the water level. Mountain and Kinneret aquifers are expected to reach the black line by the year end.
The next year rain forecasts are still worse than this year’s.
Water price for gardening doubled to $3.30 per cubic meter.
Water supply to Arab enemies continues unhindered. The Arabs don’t bother to pay for the water.

Barak transferred Israel’s only significant gas field to Arafat in order “to make Palestinian Authority economically viable“. Arafat immediately sold the gas field to British Gas. Israeli government wanted to buy the gas from BG, but refused its $4.6 price as too high. Now negotiations resumed, and British Gas asks for $8.
Jews didn’t exactly make the PA economically viable, but Barak, Arafat, and BG received handsome profits.