Word: aviv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labeled "Nazi leather" by some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made of this material." One journalist wrote, "Today we sell Nazi black, tomorrow...
...AVIV, Israel: With the Mideast peace process teetering, Israel commemorated the one-year anniversary of the assassination of one of the architects of the policy, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Marchers carried torches and signs declaring "Peace will avenge his blood" as they walked amid heavy security from the site of Rabin's shooting on the steps of city hall to the hospital where he died 90 minutes later. Rabin's assassination, at the hands of a nationalist Jew opposed to his peace efforts with the Arabs, occurred on November 4, but according to the Hebrew calendar the one-year anniversary...
...whose candle was snuffed out, and was buried in the dust, a bitter cry won't wake him, won't bring him back," Rabin sang over the television monitor in a video clip from the peace rally in Tel Aviv last November which ended with his assassination...
...truth lay all undiscovered before me." With the inner universe waiting for an Einstein to formulate a unified theory of mind and body, there is much to be done. Maybe then we will understand those people who think we know it all. ISRAEL SPIEGLER, Chair Information Systems Department Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv...
...Aristotle, who, as you say, couldn't have conceived of the Hubble Space Telescope? Why? Perhaps we are governed by some extracelestial bodies that have a different time concept. Maybe for them 1,000 Earth years make up only one year or even a mere day. JOSEPH KON Tel Aviv...