Haaretz - Israel News - Israel to hand over Bethlehem this week: "Israel to hand over Bethlehem this weekBy Amos HarelThe Israel Defense Forces is expected to hand over control of Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority this week, and military sources said yesterday that control may be transferred as early as tomorrow. Meanwhile, settlers yesterday vacated nine illegally-built homes inhabited last week in the Amuna outpost, near the settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah."