Word: aviv
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...Today every Palestinian is like a Scud missile. He gets up, puts on his clothes and mows people down." DAVID BAR MAOZ, an Israeli, after a hit-and-run attack by a Palestinian on a crowded bus stop near Tel Aviv...
...many ways the destruction of the Israeli left was the real story of the election. At the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv, Barak's U.S. campaign consultants, Robert Shrum and Stanley Greenberg, monitored exit polls throughout election day. By 9 p.m., the dimensions of Barak's loss were clear. Campaign managers Tal Silberstein and Moshe Gaon came to Greenberg's hotel room overlooking the Mediterranean. "Ehud's going to resign," Silberstein said...
...depressing cycle moves up another gear... At least eight Israelis were killed and a number injured Wednesday when a Palestinian bus driver deliberately ploughed his vehicle into a crowd at a bus stop near Tel Aviv. Although an unknown radical Islamic group claimed responsibility for the attack, the Palestinian Authority claimed that the 34-year-old driver, who had worked for an Israeli bus company for five years, had acted alone. The driver was captured by Israeli security forces as he tried to flee back to Gaza...
...couple of weeks ago, Ariel Sharon sat in his shirtsleeves in the plush Tel Aviv office of his top campaign adviser. The 72-year-old Likud Party candidate in next week's prime ministerial elections was surrounded by his team of high-powered imagemakers, the professionals charged with persuading voters that the former general's reputation as a dangerous maverick is undeserved. At the end of the meeting to discuss his speaking schedule, Sharon raised his bulky frame and addressed his handlers. "I have to thank you all for making me look like such a very nice guy," he said...
Barak watched Sharon's makeover with incredulity. Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister settled into a chair in the conference room of the Tel Aviv television studio where his staff shot his election ads. As Sharon's campaign spot came on the air, the Prime Minister couldn't believe what he was seeing. Smiling Israelis of all walks of life, backed by the blue and white of the national flag, were intercut with a grandfatherly Sharon. Annoyed, Barak turned to his campaign manager, Tal Silberstein. "It's impossible that this guy shows himself with cows and wheat fields and playing...