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Israel today, as described in this week's cover stories by Associate Editor Jim Kelly and Staff Writer Pico Iyer, may house per square mile the world's most diverse society. In Tel Aviv alone, 15 daily newspapers are published in eight languages. It is hardly coincidental that the members of TIME's Jerusalem bureau, who reported the cover stories, reflect some of that mix of national origin and personal perspective...
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Questions about the fate of the hijackers were raised almost immediately after the bloody episode, which began when four young Arab men seized a bus south of Tel Aviv. They threatened to blow up the bus and its 39 passengers if 25 imprisoned Palestinians were not freed. After an almost ten-hour impasse, Israeli commandos attacked the bus. One passenger was killed, seven wounded. Two terrorists were killed instantly, while the other two, according to an official statement the next day, died "on the way to the hospital," presumably of wounds...
...Israeli newspaper photographers, however, snapped pictures that showed soldiers and security men hustling two men, one handcuffed and the other with only a trace of blood on his face, away from the scene. Israeli military censors immediately banned publication of the photos, but the editor of Hadashot, a Tel Aviv daily, took one of the pictures to Banny Shuiel, the village in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip from which the terrorists came. Relatives quickly identified the shackled man in the photo as Majid Abu-Gumaa, one of the four dead Palestinians. Only after the New York Times published an account...
...such a move, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens admitted, "would increase the chance for an armed clash with Syria." Other options could prove no less incendiary. "The situation is fluid and dangerous enough for the Syrians to play games," said a top-ranking Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv. "It might be a game they will regret ever playing...