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...kibbutz to kibbutz. Some settlements have been established by religious Jews with visions of recovering all the land encompassed by the Israel of biblical times. Says Gideon Bachau, 24, a former paratrooper who lives at Kibbutz Keshet: "This area is more Jewish than some other parts of Israel. Tel Aviv, for instance, was always Philistine country." Other settlers cling to the Heights for more down-to-earth reasons. Explains Zipporah Harel, whose husband was one of the first six farmers to occupy the area: "We are not here because of a love of this land or because it was once...
...Holy See to meet the Pope." "Don't forget," retorted her assistant, "carpenters have a special standing there." Now that Mrs. Meir has written her memoirs, this image of the Yiddisher mama as world figure-"I, Golda Meir, from Pinsk, Milwaukee and Tel Aviv"-dominates. The progress of that pique remains a compelling narrative...
...move to frontier Tel Aviv offered her a new citizenship-but cost her a husband. Morris Meyerson, whom she had met and married in Milwaukee, was less positive than his bride about Zionism. The marriage dissolved; the son and daughter remained with Golda and Morris disappeared into the shadows of history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser...
...battle with Egypt and Syria stabilized, Israel had lost more men than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel's First Lady, a homebody at last in her Tel Aviv semidetached, the accomplish ments and the anecdotes cannot cloak the final...
...increasingly brazen. While the $14 million disaster thriller Towering Inferno was still in production last year, a San Diego movie theater was showing a 90-minute pirated version put together from prints of individual scenes (the full movie takes 165 minutes to play). On a recent visit to Tel Aviv, two associates of Sam Arkoff, chairman of American International Pictures, to their amazement spotted his film, The Masque of the Red Death, playing in a downtown cinema. Exclaimed Arkoff: "We have never made a distribution deal in Israel." Some pirates even advertise openly in catalogues such as The Big Reel...