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ByVladimirIsachenkov The Associated Press MOSCOW Moscow's ban on all flights to Egypt in the wakeofaRussianplanecrash will last for at least several months, the Kremlin chief of staff said Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to Egypt's strug- gling tourism industry. President Vladimir Pu- tin's chief of staff, Sergei Iva- nov,saidonavisittoFinland thatitwouldbeimpossibleto radicallyreviseEgypt'ssecu- rity system in a short time, according to Russian news reports. Putinsuspendedallflights to Egypt on Friday amid se- curityconcernsaftertheOct. 31 crash of a Russian airliner that killed all 224 people on- board. Other airliners from Brit- ain and Western Europe are also bringing their nationals home,afterseveralcountries and airlines last week sus- pended new flights to Egypt amidsuspicionsthataterror attack could be the cause of the crash of the Airbus A321- 200 operated by Metrojet. U.S. and British officials have cited intelligence re- ports indicating that the plane, en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, wasbroughtdownbyabomb on board. While Russia and Egypt said the statements were premature pending the of- ficial crash probe, Moscow's ban on flights signaled that it was taking the bomb the- ory seriously. Ivanov said Egypt needs to revise its security re- gime not only in Sharm el- Sheikh, but also in airports in Cairo and the Red Sea re- sort Hurghada. Asked how long the Rus- sianflightbancouldlast,Iva- novsaidthat"Ithinkforsev- eralmonths,asaminimum." "It's impossible to rad- ically change the systems of security, protection and control in a week or even a month," he added. SecurityofficialsatSharm el-Sheikh airport have told The Associated Press that it has long seen gaps in se- curity, including a key bag- gagescanningdevicethatof- tenisnotfunctioningandlax searches at an entry gate for food and fuel for the planes. The head of Cairo's inter- national airport, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Genina said offi- cials from Russia, Holland, Italy, the United Arab Emir- ates and Qatar were exam- ining the scanning of pas- sengers, cargo and baggage at the airport Tuesday. Secu- rityguardsandcatererswere also being inspected. TheRussianbanhasbadly struck Egypt's vital tourist sector, which represents 11 percent of its economy and almost 20 percent of crucial foreign currency revenues. The industry had been mak- ing a gradual recovery after years of political upheaval since the 2011 popular upris- ing that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Egypt is one of the most populardestinationsforRus- sians,especiallyinthewinter when the sun and clear seas lure them away from gray, frigid weather. RoughlythreemillionRus- sian tourists came to Egypt in 2014, nearly a third of all visitors, with most heading totheresortsinthesouthern Sinai Peninsula or its oppo- site coast, far off from an in- surgency being fought by Is- lamic militants against the army further north. Eastern European visi- tors, also including people from former Soviet satellite states like Ukraine, made up a crucial 45 percent of all tourist arrivals in June, ac- cording to Egyptian govern- ment statistics. Within hours of the Me- trojet crash, a faction of the Islamic State militant group claimed to have downed the plane in retaliation for Mos- cow's airstrikes that began a month earlier against mili- tants in Syria, a claim that was initially dismissed by both Russia and Egypt. PLANE CRASH AFTERMATH Kremlin:Russianbanonflights to Egypt will last several months By Daniella Cheslow The Associated Press JERUSALEM Two Pales- tinian boys, aged 11 and 14, stabbed and wounded an Israeli guard on a train who responded by firing and wounding one of them Tuesday. Meanwhile, Is- raeli security forces killed two other Palestinians who carried out knife at- tacks, police said, as vio- lence returned to Jerusa- lem after a two-week lull. The train attack was reminiscent of a similar case from October when two young Palestinian cousins stabbed two Israe- lis in east Jerusalem. That case became fodder for the ongoing war of words be- tween the Palestinian and Israeli governments and the trial of one of the at- tackers began on Tuesday. In the first attack Tues- day, police said two young Palestinian relatives stabbed a security guard on a train. The guard was moderately wounded and shot the younger assail- ant. Passengers subdued the other, police said. The wounded boy was being treated at a hospital. An amateur video that surfaced on a Palestin- ian website showed plain- clothes Israeli security forces wrestling a young boy, presumably one of the attackers, to the ground and taking off his clothes and shoes. The boy was stripped to his under- wear as the security men shouted at him. Jerusalem had been rela- tivelycalmoverthelasttwo weeks as the focus of a two- month wave of Palestinian attacks, mainly stabbings, shifted to the West Bank, where Israeli troops have regularly clashed with Pal- estinian protesters. Most of the Palestin- ian attackers have been in their late teens or early 20s. On Tuesday, 13-year- old Ahmed Manasra went on trial before a Jerusalem court over a stabbing last month that fueled a high- profile media war. Since mid-September, 12 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings. Seventy-seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, in- cluding 50 said by Israel to have been involved in attacks or attempted at- tacks. The other Palestin- ians died in clashes be- tween stone-throwers and security forces. Thelatestbloodshedwas triggeredbyunrestatama- jor Jerusalem shrine re- vered by both Muslims and Jews, and quickly spread acrossIsrael,theWestBank and the Gaza border. Israel accusesPalestinianpolitical and religious leaders of in- citingtheviolence.Palestin- ians say the unrestis the in- evitable result of nearly 50 years of Israeli occupation and no hope for gaining in- dependence. Also Tuesday, a 37-year- old Palestinian man was killed outside Jerusalem's Old City as he chased guards while wielding a knife, police said. Authori- ties released footage show- ing a Palestinian running toward the guards with what appears to be a knife and attempting to attack them with it before he is shot. Israeli police said forces foiled another attack near Abu Dis, a West Bank sub- urb of Jerusalem. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a Palestinian tried to stab forces at a checkpoint before he was shot dead. TRAIN GUARD STABBED Violence returns to Jerusalem a er 2-week lull By Deb Riechmann The Associated Press WASHINGTON Congresssent President Barack Obama a $607 billion defense policy bill Tuesday that bans mov- ingGuantanamoBaydetain- ees to the United States — something Obama has been trying to do since he was sworn in as president. The Senate's 91-3 vote gave final legislative ap- proval to the measure. The House overwhelmingly passed it last week, 370-58. Obama does not like the Guantanamo provisions, but White House press sec- retary Josh Earnest said Obama will sign the bill. "The president believes closing that prison is a na- tional security priority. The president is not the only per- son that shares that view," Earnest said, citing former secretaries of state who served in both Republican and Democratic administra- tions. EarnestsaidthatObama's decision to sign the bill — because it includes provi- sions that are important to running and protecting the country — does not change hispositionaboutwantingto close the prison. Obama vetoed an earlier version of the defense pol- icy bill over a dispute, later resolved, about whether de- fense spending increases should be accompanied by boostsindomesticprograms. Among other things, the bill would: —Providea1.3percentpay increase to service members and a new retirement option for troops. —Authorize lethal assis- tancetoUkraineforcesfight- ing Russian-backed rebels. —Extend a ban on torture to the CIA. —Authorize the presi- dent's request of $715 mil- lion to help Iraqi forces fight Islamic State militants. "We all know the unfortu- nate and unnecessary road- blocksthedefenseauthoriza- tion bill has faced this year. We all know that the presi- dent decided to veto the ver- sion of this bill we passed last month," said Senate Ma- jority Leader Mitch McCon- nell, R-Ky. "We look forward to the president signing the bipar- tisan bill — along with its re- strictions against bringing terrorists into the United States — into law," he said. Three senators — Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, both Democrats from Or- egon, and Bernie Sanders, an independent from Ver- mont — voted against the defense bill. DEFENSE POLICY Bill banning Guantanamo detainees from US OK'd AHMEDABDEL-LATIF—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Passengers check the departure information board at Sharm el-Sheikh Airport in south Sinai, Egypt, on Monday. Through a Child's Eyes… AspecialcontestbringingTehamaCounty school children and local businesses together … to the delight of Daily News readers! 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