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...suffered a Nixonesque drop in the public opinion polls - from 65% support before the war to 21% today. Dayan, the hero of the 1967 war, is now constantly derided for the disastrous early setbacks of 1973. Indeed, one popular hero of the Yom Kippur War, Reserve Captain Motti Ashkenazi, 33, who commanded the only fortification on the Bar-Lev Line that did not fall to the Egyptians, last week led 4,000 anti-Dayan pickets in front of Mrs. Meir's Jerusalem office. GO DOWN MOSES (DAYAN)! read some of the placards...
...became close friends with Arabs, and 84% if a friend or relative were to marry an Arab. The most biased Israelis are recently arrived Sephardic Jews from Africa and Asia, many of whom lived in Arab countries. The least biased are native-born Sabras, followed by the Europe-bred Ashkenazi Jews...
...They were exchanged for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis, including two pilots who had accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees. The following day, Major Nissim Ashkenazi, a top combat pilot shot down over Egypt in August, and Captain Giora Rom, whose Mirage jet was hit in September, were traded for 52 Egyptian civilians, five soldiers and one air force pilot. After Ashkenazi's return, Israeli officials reported that the pilot had been severely tortured...
...concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
...division of Judaism into Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities dates back to the Middle Ages, when Spain and Germany were the main centers of Jewish culture. The Jews in Spain were known as the Sephardim (Spanish in Hebrew) and the German Jews were called the Ashkenazim (German in Hebrew). The differences between the two are mostly in custom and culture. For example, during Passover, the Ashkenazim are forbidden to eat rice and beans, while the Sephardim may eat both...