Palestinians demonstrate in Rafah against Israeli excavation work at the Al-Aqsa site compound in March 14, 2008. Israel and the Palestinians resumed high-level talks today after a two-week hiatus, meeting with a top US envoy amid mounting US criticism of settlement construction. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90

Palestinian children hold a model of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque during a demonstration in Rafah against Israeli excavation work at the site's compound in March 14, 2008. Israel and the Palestinians resumed high-level talks today after a two-week hiatus, meeting with a top US envoy amid mounting US criticism of settlement construction. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90

BMI's jet plane arrive to the hangar at Ben Gurion Airport after the first BMI flight landed in Israel on Thursday, March 13, 2008. BMI is represented in Israel by tourism company Open Sky Ltd., owned by Nochi Dankner and Avi Fischer, who also control Israir. This fact diminishes the Transport Ministry's achievement since it now transpires that not only has it failed to safeguard El Al's interests, but that BMI would have probably secured good slots for Israir without it acting as mediator Photo by Yossi Zliger / FLASH90.