Word: aviv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israel, the three of us would giggle and smile together regardless of locale. Whether we were hiking under the intense sun of the Negev Desert or exploring a Tel-Aviv mall, we enjoyed ourselves. We sang incessantly, especially Beatles songs. "Rocky Raccoon" was our favorite; we wrapped the country in that song. At any given time, one of us would break into song and the other two would join in and belt out the notes. We never felt embarrassed...
...negotiate with the very people who harbor and abet these murderers. And honor them: suicide bombers are hailed as shaheed, holy martyrs. Indeed, a poll taken of West Bank Palestinians showed that they approved, by 49% to 38%, of the previous suicide bombing, the March massacre in a Tel Aviv cafe...
...AVIV, Israel: Labor has a new point man. Early projections indicate that Ehud Barak is the runaway winner in Labor's primary election over outspoken dove Yossi Beilin and two others. Barak, 55, is a charismatic former military chief whose career and politics closely resemble those of the late Yitzhak Rabin. Much like Rabin in his own 1992 primary against Shimon Peres, Barak ran less on policy than on the promise that he alone could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and return Labor to power. His party has long shared Barak's optimism. In April, at the height...
...countries with "a government-directed or -orchestrated clandestine effort to collect U.S. economic secrets." Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that last year U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk complained privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents, who had been following American-embassy employees in Tel Aviv and searching the hotel rooms of visiting U.S. officials...
...only evidence the FBI has of another mole is the intercepted phone conversation. During the call, the Israeli intelligence officer in Washington and his superior in Tel Aviv are discussing how they can get their hands on a Jan. 16 letter then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher wrote to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The private letter spelled out U.S. guarantees for Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank. The Israeli official in Washington suggested going to Mega for a copy of the letter, but his superior rejected the idea. "This is not something we use Mega for," the Israeli supervisor...