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...Israeli civilian, employed by the Defense Ministry, stood before an audience of high school students in Tel Aviv and casually described how he and his colleagues oversee the work of foreign correspondents reporting from Israel. "We hear all their phone calls, check every story they send, and even garble their telex cable transmissions when they move stories that can harm us," the bureaucrat explained. The admission was extraordinary. Although Israel regularly censors reports by domestic and foreign journalists on a broad range of subjects, on the ground that it is necessary to do so to protect national security, officials have...
...bomb that explodes in the house of an Israeli labor attaché near Bonn draws the attention not only of West German authorities but also of intelligence agents from Tel Aviv, led by a man named Kurtz (a.k.a. Schulmann, Raphael, Spielberg). He knows who is responsible for the blast: a shadowy Palestinian called Khalil who has terrorized Western Europe with apparent impunity. Kurtz pays his hidden adversary a supreme compliment: "There's a brain at work." Kurtz has also located Khalil's younger brother and collaborator, currently living in Munich, and has a team of agents in place...
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...Friday, at about the time Ariel Sharon was telling an audience in Tel Aviv that "the mark of Cain" had been planted on his forehead by the week's events, several thousand Israelis attended the funeral, in the port city of Haifa, of Emil Eliyahu Greenzweig, 33, the victim of the grenade attack of the previous evening. Professor Elkana Yehuda spoke of Greenzweig, who had recently received a master's degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hebrew University, as "a symbol of love and tolerance." Yehuda expressed his hope that the current national debate would not lead to "the destruction...
...newspaper advertisement for one new settlement promises, "A new road will be built that will enable you to reach Tel Aviv without the need to cross any Arab towns and villages." Critics argue that this is central to the whole concept: the creation of Jewish communities that have nothing in common and little to share with the Arab society around them. The schools and shops will be Israeli, the language Hebrew, and culture and entertainment will be available in the Israeli cities only 15 or 20 minutes away...