Israeli reporters who tried the new service drew astonished responses from Arabs who answered their calls.

They also met with Israeli reporters to restate the network's commitment to balanced coverage.

Western and Israeli reporters rely on it to keep abreast of the story.

"We are talking about 15 outposts, which in my opinion represent a danger to security," he told Israeli reporters.

"I've never been afraid of daylight, sir," the King told an Israeli reporter.

"You are every day killing Palestinians," he said to the Israeli reporters.

But security officials summoned Israeli reporters who write about military matters and told them that terrorism had no military solution.

Israeli reporters were greeted in Amman warmly, if sometimes awkwardly.

"Everybody now is talking peace," President Mubarak told Israeli reporters after his speech.

She is an Israeli reporter for Dutch television and radio.