FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 23, ?2002-10-23

ISRAELI ATTORNEY EMBARKS ON SPEAKING TOUR TO WARN JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF
THREAT TO ISRAEL FROM EUROPEAN FUNDING OF PALESTINIAN TERROR

Darshan-Leitner Announces the Launching of A New Jewish
Legal Rights Center - "Shurat Hadin"

In the wake of her scoring a powerful court victory against the Palestinian
Authority (PA) in the Jerusalem court, Israeli activist attorney, Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner, has announced that she is embarking upon a speaking tour
across the US, Canada and Europe. The purpose of the tour is to alert
Jewish communities throughout the diaspora of the serious threat that Israel
is facing from funds being provided to the PA by the European Union (EU).
The Tel-Aviv attorney alleges that millions of dollars in financial
assistance donated by Brussels to the PA each month, under the guise of
"humanitarian aid," is being diverted by Yasser Arafat to the terrorist
Fatah Tanzim and Al-Aqsa Matryr Brigade forces.

Darshan-Leitner has also announced the launching of a new Jewish legal
rights center in Israel: "Shurat Hadin - Israel Law Center." The Center
will assist terror victims in bringing lawsuits against the Palestinian
Authority, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Hamas.

Last week, Darshan-Leitner won a landmark 64-million shekel ($13
million) lien against Arafat's assets, for the family of an IDF soldier
brutally lynched by the Palestinian Police in Ramallah. The money has been
deducted from PA funds that were frozen by Israel early in the Intifada, but
which Israel intends to release to the PA in the coming weeks ( - a result
of intense U.S. pressure).

"Each bullet costs the Palestinian terrorists one dollar, " Darshan-Leitner
explains,
"The lien we have placed on the PA's assets will therefore deprive the PA
terrorist organizations of some 13 million bullets. Each such attachment
we secure against the PA's money means that the lives of more Israelis are
being saved. Moreover, the money is being taken from the PA's coffers and
given to those who deserve it most: the families of the victims of Arafat's
terrorism."

In addition to the Jerusalem court decision, Darshan-Leitner stated that in
the coming days she expects to win a first-of-its-kind judgment against
Hamas in a United States federal court, on behalf of the orphans of a young
Jewish couple murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1996.

Darshan-Leitner notes that she launched the long overdue Jewish legal rights
center in Israel out of necessity. Her office was being flooded with appeals
for legal assistance from terror victims. According Darshan-Leitner: "
Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, is serving as a legal resource and
research institute for the numerous legal battles that we are waging against
terrorism in the Israeli, American and European courts on
behalf of the Jewish State and its citizens. We envision it as a central
clearinghouse and litigation base for the multifarious legal fights that
have been thrust upon us."

The first speaking dates of the tour are set for October 30th. In the
lectures, Darshan-Leitner will discuss:

* * How the European Union has become the biggest financial supporter of
Palestinian terror
* * Legal efforts on behalf of captured Arab undercover agents who spy for
Israel
* * Efforts to track the funding and material support for terrorist groups
by Syria, Iran and Iraq.
* * Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is on trial in Tel Aviv for ordering
terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians

To date, the following venues have been scheduled for appearances, with
many additional programs being planned:

Cedarhurst, Long Island, The Sephardic Synagogue, AMIT Women Dinner,
October 30th.
Upper West Side, NYC, West Side Institutional Synagogue, October 31st.
Philadephia, PA, Congregation Mikveh Israel, November 2nd.
Highland Park, NJ, Congregation Ahavas Achim, November 3rd.
Newark, NJ, I.D.T. Corp, November 4th. .
Rutgers University, NJ, November 4th.
Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, Congregation Etz Chaim of KGH, November 5th.
Teaneck, NJ, Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, November 6th.
Silver Spring, MD, Parlor meeting with Jewish leaders & activists, November
7th.
Marblehead, MA, Temple Sinai, (morning event) November 10th.
Brookline, MA, Young Israel of Brookline, BIAC event, November 10th.
Chicago, IL, JUF/ Lawyers Division, November 11th.
Chicago, IL, Religious Zionist Center, Religious Zionist of America, AMIT
Women and JCRC/Jewish Federation, November 11th.
Chicago, IL, Decalogue Society of Lawyers and American Jewish Committee,
November 12th.
Chicago, IL, John Marshall Law School, November 12th.
Great Neck, Long Island, Great Neck Synagogue, November 13th.
Toronto, Canada, Congregation Shaarei Shomayim, Toronto Zionist Council,
November 14th.
Cedarhurst, Long Island, Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, November 16th.

As this letter is being prepared, additional lecture dates are being
arranged. Those who would like to hear a first-hand
account and analysis, straight from the front line of the battle against
terrorism, are urged to please make an effort to attend these programs.

Moreover, if any IMRA readers can arrange for a lecture at your synagogue,
organization or parlor meeting, please contact: (U.S.) 212-591-0073,
(Israel) 011-972-8-973-3336, or by email: .

As is written, "For if you persist in keeping silent at a time like this .
. ." (Esther 4,14)

You can read about the landmark NIS 64 million lien against frozen assets
of the Palestinian Authority:
4014777185>

Read about Nitsana Darshan-Leitner's petitioning the Palestinian
Authority's Minister of Justice to defend an alleged Palestinian
collaborator:
9920579241>

Read about an Israeli family suing the European Union for 100m shekels
($20m):

Sincerely,
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
Attorney-at-Law