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Like the Blitz. Israelis stationed overseas have come to feel like frontline combatants in what one Tel Aviv columnist calls "our new war of attrition." They are provided with government security suggestions that cover four pages. Embassies and consulates have been converted into veritable fortresses; in Manhattan, for instance, a potential visitor to the Israeli consulate not only has to pass a policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches...
Chosen to head Israel's Ashkenazic Jews was Shlomo Goren, 54, former chief of army chaplains and Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. New leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews is the Sephardic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, scholarly, Baghdad-born Ovadia Yosef...
...origin. The U.S. and Western European nations oppose any resolution that might end the traditional right to grant political sanctuary. Even Israel, the strongest advocate of anti-terror measures, would be in a quandary if Soviet Jews were to skyjack an Aeroflot plane and fly it to Tel Aviv...
...with the murder of eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich reached a new and deadly level. Before the week ended, 64 similar letter bombs flooded Israeli diplomatic offices in New York City, Ottawa, Montreal, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Kinshasa as well as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; fortunately, all were discovered before they could do any damage. Security was strengthened around Israeli offices throughout the world; British police set up a special anti-kidnap patrol; in New York City, visitors to the Israeli U.N. mission communicated through locked doors by intercom and closed-circuit...
...Israeli defense expert, whose specialty happens to be explosives, recently received a small package in Tel Aviv bearing the return address of a relative in Beersheba. His training saved his life. Ripping the package open, he suddenly realized that he had exposed and activated a minuscule plunger that even then was moving toward an equally minute detonator. In a split second the man slammed his hand down and stopped the plunger. Then he carefully carried the package to an automobile he summoned and had his driver take him to a nearby military base. The remaining contents of the package included...