Word: arish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handful of his usual supporters. Chief among these was Rabbi Haim Druckman, 49, a Deputy Minister who belongs to the six-member National Religious Party. The bronze-bearded Druckman, the father of ten, holds the view of many religious Jews that the northern Sinai, extending to El Arish in the southwest, is part of the biblical Eretz Yisrael and should not be abandoned...
Just south of Gaza on the highway to El Arish is the turnoff to Yamit. A long line of cars, full of sightseeing Israelis, is halted by a roadside stand where Israeli youngsters are handing out leaflets and soliciting signatures for a petition supporting a group called the Movement to Halt the Withdrawal. Afterward the youngsters paste bumper stickers on the cars. The slogan: DON'T UPROOT A TREE...
...policies continued, and one day to leave power to a member of Egypt's "October Generation," the men in uniform who helped regain Egyptian self-esteem by their initial victories in the 1973 October War. Sadat had first met Mubarak in the Sinai town of El Arish in 1950; impressed by the young air force officer, the President remembered his name two decades later while searching for a commander for his air force...
...twisted wreckage of rusty train cars signals the approach to the Sinai capital of El Arish. After twelve years of Israeli occupation, the town reverted to Egypt in May 1979. Many of the local people speak both Hebrew and Arabic and merchants hawk Israeli goods. At the frontier, travelers are greeted by a sign bearing the word PEACE. Passports are checked and at a makeshift customs depot bags are briskly inspected before a short bus ride across a no-man's land to the Israeli side...
Leaving El Arish behind, our hired Mercedes sedan speeds across the last sliver of Sinai territory, 28 miles wide, which Israel is to return to Egypt next year. The car cruises on through the rolling Israeli heartland and into the steep hills leading to Jerusalem. Soon the chunky stone fortifications of the Old City loom in the twilight. It has taken nine hours-and more than 30 years-to get there from Cairo...