Word: aviv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Street in 1948, and the latest in a series of thrusts by Arab fedayeen commandos. Last August, ten people were wounded in Jerusalem during an attack still referred to as the "night of the grenades." In September, one Israeli was killed and ten injured by a bomb in Tel Aviv's bus station. On those occasions, angered Israelis rioted in nearby Arab sections. This time, however, police threw up roadblocks and slapped a curfew on Jerusalem's Arab section, once again dividing the Old City...
...GLASS BOOTH. Robert Shaw indulges in some pop psychologizing in this complicated yarn about a Jewish business tycoon in Manhattan who is uncovered as a Nazi war criminal, then brought to trial in Tel Aviv, where he is uncovered again as a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner from World War II. Even the amazingly agile acting of Donald Pleasence and the sensitive direction of Harold Pinter cannot give substance, theatrical or philosophical, to a spurious script...
...nationwide. It is not unusual, anywher, to discuss individual personalities in terms of an intricate balance between fear and security, but the Israelis have taken that balance and have collectivized it. The people know what there is to fear, and military exhibitions, paratroop drops on the beaches of Tel Aviv, and the preponderance of soldiers provide the necessary feeling of security...
This summer a film about the Six Days War became very popular in Tel Aviv. Entitled Every Bastard A King, the show included scenes of tank battles in Sinai. A young Israeli soldier who had actually fought in the battles was commenting on how realistic the battle scenes in the movie were...
...Arab threat is real, both within and outside the country. But if the threat is a fact of life, must it engulf you wherever you go in the country? Must it dominate the silver screen, walk in the streets with you, and be dropped on the beaches of Tel Aviv? Won't a people fight for and believe in their country without this...