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...election was called; to keep up, many shopkeepers now state their prices in U.S. dollars. The black market has become active as panicky Israelis look for ways to protect their savings. Last week the dealers who operate out of cafes and phone booths on Tel Aviv's Lilienblum Street drove the price for a U.S. dollar to a new high of 320 shekels, an increase of 65 in only one week and 87 more than the official rate. Says a disgusted Israeli: "People must think we have become a banana republic...
...under certain circumstances and grave events, organized to defend our brothers." Paul Eidelberg, a professor at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv, argues that there is a difference between Israeli and Arab terrorism: "Arab violence against Jews is ultimately against the very existence of the Jewish state. In contrast, when Jews resort to violence against Arabs, they are not denying Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state." That sentiment reaches right into the government. Science and Technology Minister Yuval Ne'eman said in May that while he condemned "blind terror," the assaults on the mayors had "positive results...
Many Israelis disagree. In a poll published last month in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz, 60% said that the anti-Arab violence was unjustified, though 32% felt it was "totally justified" or had "a certain justification." Says Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "Self-appointed avengers weaken the state and reduce us to the level of other perpetrators of terror...
...hinted in the past that he might be willing to give up some West Bank land in exchange for peace, he has avoided directly addressing the question in the current campaign. Israelis are almost evenly divided on the subject. A poll published last month in Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv newspaper, showed that while 43% backed a peace agreement in which Jordan conceded some West Bank territory, 41% were opposed to giving up any land whatsoever. "Those who call themselves Palestinian Arabs should be grateful that we permit them to live in our homeland," says a West Bank settler. "They...
...main by Ashkenazim, Israeli schools concentrated on Western poetry and European history; their liturgies were the Ashkenazic ones. Not surprisingly, students from Ashkenazic homes with book lined shelves easily outperformed Sephardic children. "We achieved nothing," says Yehuda Amir, director of the Institute of Integration at Tel Aviv's Bar-ilan University. "The Sephardic children came from large families, lived in crowded quarters and could make little or no progress. Their drop-out rate was high. And it was impossible to have good schools in poor neighborhoods...