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...practice, however, classrooms only increased the sense of separation. Run in the main by Ashkenazim, Israeli schools concentrated on Western poetry and European history; their liturgies were the Ashkenazic ones. Not surprisingly, students from Ashkenazic homes with book lined shelves easily outperformed Sephardic children. "We achieved nothing," says Yehuda Amir, director of the Institute of Integration at Tel Aviv's Bar-ilan University. "The Sephardic children came from large families, lived in crowded quarters and could make little or no progress. Their drop-out rate was high. And it was impossible to have good schools in poor neighborhoods...
Instead of distinct friction between the religious factions. Salem says a nationalistic feeling began to unite the Lebanese people. He points to the unanimous election of the new President--Amir Gemayel as an indication of this unity...
...operation. This was already some 24 hours after the massacre in the camps had begun. Sharon said Eitan told him that the Lebanese Forces had harmed Palestinian civilians "more than had been anticipated." Added Eitan: "They went too far." Accordingly, Sharon testified, Eitan and the northern front commander, Amir Drori, had prevented additional Christian forces from entering the fighting areas and had ordered the Lebanese Forces out of the camps by 5 a.m., Sept...
...crucial Christian-Israeli planning session, reports TIME Correspondent David Halevy, took place at noon Thursday, Sept. 16, at the Israeli command post in Beirut Port. Present was Israeli Major General Amir Drori, head of the Northern Command, and at least three other top Israeli officers. Also present was Fady Frem, the Lebanese Forces Chief of Staff. Frem was accompanied by Elias Hobeika, the Forces' intelligence chief, who had attended the Staff and Command College in Israel. He was to be the main leader of the groups that went into the camps...
...Amir Zekrgoo, age 24 and Siazash Khagavi, age 26--who have paid their bonds of $1500--were arrested after an intensive investigation into the fight that involved a pro-Khomeini group breaking into a meeting of anti-Khomeini students. Ashtrays, coffee pots and chairs were thrown and one student was injured, KU police said...