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...supervise the excavation - fear systematic destruction of Jewish relics. The debris contained pottery shards dating to the time of Solomon's Temple, according to Israeli officials. "This isn't a political dispute. It's a cultural intifadeh," says Gabriel Barkay, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Last week Barkay and other local archaeologists persuaded the Israeli High Court to temporarily bar the removal of any more debris. Israelis say that since the reconstruction, a bulge in the Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster, and a section of the eastern wall has begun...
...this year. The Israeli government is receptive: in July, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set off a diplomatic flap when he called on French Jews to "move to Israel as early as possible," and later welcomed 200 new French immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv to "the only place where you can be safe." Most who make the move blame rising anti-Semitism. Jews have historically struggled in France, from the 13th century Trial of the Talmud to persecution during the Nazi occupation; but they have also flourished, providing two French Prime Ministers in the 20th century...
...safety. His kids will have plenty of company: in the last 10 years, the number of students in Jewish schools in greater Paris has doubled to 30,000, with thousands more on waiting lists. Those who can afford it are simply moving out, buying apartments in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, Netanya or Ashdod. El Al flights to and from Europe now regularly feature in-flight ads, in French, for property in Israel. And according to Israeli press reports, tourist trips by French Jews - some clearly exploring immigration - have skyrocketed in recent years. The exodus reflects a genuine crisis...
...suffered as much agony as Israel before achieving golden ecstasy. At the 1972 Games in Munich, Palestinian gunmen stormed their quarters at the Olympic Village, killing 11 athletes and coaches. Every Israeli grows up hearing about the Munich martyrs, and each Olympic team pays its respects at a Tel Aviv memorial before heading off to the Games. "We don't stop," says Israeli Olympic Committee president Zvi Varshaviak. "We've been waiting a long time...
...three years earlier come within a whisper of unseating Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Among the stops on the tour, sponsored in part by the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, New Jersey's biggest Jewish philanthropy, was the city of Rishon le-Ziyyon, south of Tel Aviv. Cipel then worked as the city's spokesman. According to MetroWest's vice president, Max Kleinman, McGreevey met Cipel, who is 12 years younger, at a reception...