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...airport news conference outside Tel Aviv, Shultz noted that the attacks took place in Kuwaiti waters, not the international waters the United States has pledged to protect...
...public transportation, ultra-Orthodox militants, who make up only about 6% of the country's population, are fighting to impose their religious views on the majority. In the face of that onslaught, many non-Orthodox Israelis have responded with anger and resentment. Warns Uriel Reichman, dean of Tel Aviv University law school: "These things only create hatred of religion. For the vast majority of Israelis, their delight in Jewish tradition is being taken away...
Ultimately, of course, the Israelis themselves will have to resolve the dilemmas rooted in the nation's dual political and religious identity. One mechanism for doing this, suggests Tel Aviv University's Reichman, would be to replace the vague 1947 status quo with a written constitution, which Israel still lacks. Reichman, in fact, heads an independent university group that has drafted a model constitution based on the twin principles of free choice and protection for Israel's Jewish character. Says Reichman: "It is out of the question that individual freedom should be transgressed...
...runways at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport were unusually congested last week -- but this time by people. Several hundred aircraft workers gathered to protest a Cabinet decision to scrap the Lavi jet fighter. After months of impassioned debate, the final ballot was close: 12 to 11, with one abstention. Most Labor Party members voted against the project, while most Likud members were for it. After the vote Likud's Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens angrily quit the Cabinet...
...settlement as a means of holding on to the land forever. Today nearly 60,000 Jews live in the West Bank, though 80% of them are city people who have been lured by cheap housing and tax breaks to move into new developments only a few miles from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Probably few of the 12,000 residents of Ma'ale Adumim, a huge housing complex outside Jerusalem, think of themselves as living in the West Bank at all. Says one resident: "I don't feel any different here than in Tel Aviv...