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...longer. Shulamit Aloni, an outspoken member of the Israeli Knesset, recently suggested that there has been too much focus on classical Jewish literature in Israeli schools. She recommended a little less Judah ha-Levi (the towering figure of medieval Hebrew literature) and a litte more Rabelais. While it is not fair to implicate all secular Israelis in the switch from Hebrew to French literature, the trend is there. And insofar as its boosters would have Israel become an ersatz California or phony France, the trend...
...Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind the country that "not everything is permitted...
Israeli and Palestinian human-rights groups charge that the force used is excessive. Three weeks ago, Education Minister Shulamit Aloni, whose leftist Meretz Party is part of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's governing coalition, said she was "opposed in principle to 18- or 19-year-old boys' passing judgment on Palestinians and then carrying out death sentences against them...
...reduce the Palestinian presence in Israel -- while preserving Israel's de facto annexation of the territories -- is likely to backfire, widening the fissure along Israel's 1967 borders. "You can't just put Palestinians into refugee camps with no money and no work," says left- wing Knesset member Shulamit Aloni. "That would be hell." Eventually Shamir will have to decide whether to allow Palestinians to nurture their own economy or whether simply to send more soldiers into the territories to face the wrath of the unemployed...
...Aloni said the U.S. should increase its pressure on Israel to negotiate. Pressure from public opinion, she said, would be more effective than financial pressure because "if you want to influence people, you don't want to put them into a corner...