Word: alone
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Strip. Total population of the settlements: about 60,000. But Kaddum (newly renamed Alon Moreh), Ofra and Ma'ale Adumim have had a special -and somewhat awkward-status since their founding. They were built not as part of the Labor government's plan to provide for the security of Israel's borders but by a zealous organization called Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful). It believes that Jews have the right to settle in any part of the West Bank, since this land was included in ancient Judea and Samaria...
...stand on the land of liberated Israel. There will be many Alon Morehs. There will be many, many settlements in the coming weeks...
...pioneers at Kaddum (now renamed Alon Moreh), in the rolling hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, cheered and sang as their distinguished guest presented a Torah scroll for the settlement's new synagogue. For others, though, these were chilling words in a chilling context. The speaker was Menachem Begin, 63, onetime leader of the anti-British, anti-Arab terrorist group known as Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), who almost certainly will be Israel's next Premier. In a stunning upset victory, Begin's Likud (Unity) coalition last week became the dominant bloc in Israel's parliament, replacing...
...basis of these two observations I suggested that the meaningful change in Israel's politics should not be expected to take place in the election but a few months after it within the Labor party, when Golda will have to give up the premiership, probably to Yigal Alon, followed by Dayan's resignation and Gallili's departure from Israel's political map. Shmuel Harlap