He will be among more than 30 international leaders at the opening of a £30m Holocaust museum.Ephraim Sneh, a former minister and retired general, asked about a Sunday Times report that Israel was planning to destroy Iran’s nuclear reactor, said such action would be a “last resort”.. A further 3,000 troops have been added to the 5,000 soldiers and policemen already being trained for the evacuation.Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, arrived in Jerusalem last night and went straight into talks with Mr Sharon. He is expected to press Mr Sharon and the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to fulfill their commitments under the road map for peace. “For the first time,” Mr Gissin said, “a government has taken on itself to deal with violations of law practised for over 30 years.

Everything that is illegal will be corrected.”The committee is chaired by Tzipi Livni, the Justice Minister, a Likud supporter of the disengagement plan. “We want to prevent a situation in which the government wakes up and finds a mobile home on a hilltop, which it may have funded,” she said. Shaul Mofaz, the Defence Minister, decided on Friday to reduce the period of the Gaza pullout from 12 weeks to four to minimise the risk of violence. Eventually, Mr Gissin said, all of them would go.The study, by Talia Sasson, a former senior prosecutor, highlighted the so-called “nod-and-wink” policy of governments which condemned the outposts, but surreptitiously funded their construction to the tune of millions of shekels and supplied them with caravans, roads, electricity and water.The cabinet appointed a committee to recommend how to supervise budgets, planning and construction of settlements. Ra’anan Gissin, Mr Sharon’s spokesman, said: “You can’t do both at the same time. Removing the outposts now would take away forces needed for the disengagement.

That would give the settlers the chance to do exactly what they want, to delay the disengagement as much as possible.”Ministers also voted overwhelmingly to adopt the principles of a devastating report, which detailed government complicity in the creation of at least 105 supposedly “unauthorised” outposts. The Israeli cabinet has voted to dismantle 24 illegal West Bank settlement outposts and to withhold government help from right-wing activists trying to establish new ones.
The Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said he was committed to removing outposts founded since he took office four years ago. But, on the recommendation of the chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Moshe Ya’alon, the government postponed their evacuation until after the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, due in July.The security services preferred to keep their powder dry for the bigger confrontation with the settlers and their allies, who are determined to resist both pullouts. Police said the four-year-old became angry after his brother threw a toy at him. After outsprinting Johnson, the baby-faced Dibaba looked as fresh as she had done on the start-line.Having remained poetic in motion over the most unyielding of terrain, Dibaba defeated even the clock on the boards in Boston a fortnight later. Running in the 5,000m at the Boston Indoor Games, she finished almost seven seconds inside the world indoor record held by her compatriot Berhane Adere, clocking 14min 2.93sec. “When I crossed the line I felt I still had more in my legs,” she said.The excess will no doubt be utilised in St Galmier, where Dibaba will be looking to follow in some celebrated family footsteps.

The long race on Saturday is the main prize and Dibaba’s cousin, Deratu Tulu, has won it on three occasions: in 1995, 1997 and 2000. The veteran Tulu is not in the Ethiopian team this year, but her trailblazing achievements will still be an inspiration to her cousin.Dibaba was seven when Tulu returned to the family home in the Arsi highlands of Ethiopia with 10,000m gold from the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona It was the first Olympic success by a black African woman. “I wanted to become someone too,” Dibaba recalled, “but I never thought I would be strong enough to be like Deratu.”In the Great North Cross Country meeting in Newcastle a year ago, Dibaba was strong enough to beat Tulu for the first time She had already become a world champion. Indeed, when she sprinted to victory in the 5,000m final in Paris in the summer of 2003, Dibaba became, at the age of 18 years and 90 days, the youngest-ever winner of an individual event at the track-and-field World Championships. In Athens she had to settle for bronze in the Olympic 5,000m final, behind her compatriot Meseret Defar and the Kenyan Isabella Ochichi. In doing so, however, she was part of a notable family treble.