Word: aretz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot. Despite persistent rumors, the ministry has continually denied that it keeps a blacklist. Then someone leaked to reporters the lists of unmarriageables that the ministry had distributed to rabbinical councils and marriage registrars across Israel. The lists include more than 10,000 names. Said Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily: "It's a scandal which no democratic society can stomach...
Rejection Front. Despite such arguments, Rabin will still have a hard tune convincing many Israelis. A poll taken by the newspaper Ha'aretz showed that 47.6% of his countrymen expressed dissatisfaction with his efforts, while only 37% gave approval. Though he could probably push the proposed agreement through the Knesset, he would have opposition from left, right and even the center of his own Labor Party. "This settlement bodes no good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves...
...from publishing his diplomatic memoirs of the Six-Day War. Large portions of Golan's 300-page review of the Yom Kippur War and its diplomatic aftermath consisted of official documents tied together with transitional passages. As diplomatic correspondent of the fiercely independent Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz (circ. 55,000), Golan obviously had access to top-level sources, possibly within Israel's notoriously leaky Cabinet. Along with trading Kissinger stories last week, Israelis debated the identity of their own Deep Throat...
...Jerusalem, at least, Kissinger's problem was complicated by increasing Israeli distrust of his motives as well as nagging fears that his step-by-step diplomacy would harm Israel in the end. Ha'aretz, Israel's most influential newspaper, worried about the impact of Kissinger's peace plans: "It is not clear enough if the American Secretary of State intends to mediate between Israel and Egypt in full awareness that there is a partnership between us and the U.S., or whether he wants to succeed at any price, a price that Israel alone will have...
...state has gone through a devaluation," writes Columnist Joel Marcus in the daily Ha'aretz, "a devaluation in leadership ability, devaluation in spirit, in values, in morale, in faith and self-confidence." Traditionally respected as the savior of the nation, even the army has come under attack for incompetence. Following a hue and cry about the lack of cold-weather gear for soldiers on the frosty Golan Heights, civilian volunteers and even tourists went up to the front to distribute American parkas, long underwear and woolen socks. The government is understandably apprehensive about the upcoming report of a blue...