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...object of all this enmity is an attractive, green-eyed woman named Sylvie Keshet, the most influential and widely read columnist in Israel. Her twice weekly column in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz (circ. 50,000) is called "An Arrow from Sylvie's Bow," the title being a play on her last name, which is Hebrew for bow. More often than not, Sylvie's arrows are dipped in venom. Her columns have twice prevented prominent politicians from being appointed to the Cabinet. Now, she says with a twinkle in her eye, most of Israel...
Raphael did get furious, but when he sued, Sylvie promptly countersued him for calling her a liar. For twelve weeks Sylvie's trial was the talk of Tel Aviv. As her witnesses gave evidence against Raphael, Sylvie sat demurely hatless in maxiskirts. The trial ended last week when Raphael and Sylvie both agreed to drop their charges, and each signed a statement that neither had meant the other any harm. "Most of my friends," said Sylvie later, "were sorry I did not continue with the case. I wanted to, goodness knows. I still had enough new maxis to wear...
...front of his own family. In the wake of a frenzy of fedayeen looting and beatings, Westerners were hurriedly airlifted out of Amman; among them were at least 300 Americans. In Beirut, Lebanese officials nervously wondered whether the outburst would have an echo in their capital. And in Tel Aviv, Israeli authorities were ready to move their forces toward Amman if the situation deteriorated. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Israel "cannot remain indifferent to events in Jordan"; Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev stated bluntly that if Jordan's government could not control the guerrillas, Israel would...
...years ago this summer, when Winston Churchill's R.A.F. "few" fought off the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. In the Israelis' case, the few are chosen with painstaking care. Air Force Commander Mordechai Hod, 44, once said that if he picked 300 youths at random from a Tel Aviv street, no more than one would qualify for pilot training. Those who make it are rarely the hard-drinking, fast-living flyboys of fiction. TIME Correspondent John Shaw, visiting one base, described them as members of "an orange-juice air force that seldom drinks except when occasions like a promotion...
...from Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Perhaps the most savage criticism came in the form of a satirical revue called Queen of the Bathtub, which included a skit in which Mrs. Meir muses to herself about how she is always right. The production, which closed after 20 performances in Tel Aviv because of picketing by veterans' groups, heckling and government pressure, offered another sketch that had Defense Minister Moshe Dayan telling soldiers: "I am a man of my word. If I promise you blood and tears, you shall have blood and tears." Dayan, who saw the play, called it "toilet...