Word: barak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Barak collapsed and was taken to a hospital. Doctors feared he would die, but on the tenth day he made no protest when a nurse held his head and began to feed...
...lovesick young artist was on a hunger strike in Tel Aviv last week, and all Israel debated the consequences. The artist: Moshe Barak, 27, an Israeli of Rumanian parentage who was wounded four times in the Arab-Israeli war. His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages...
Matter of Form? Artist Barak met his fiancee, Oriah, soon after she arrived from Yugoslavia in 1951. The Orthodox Christian daughter of a Belgrade accountant, Oriah had been expelled by Tito's government for anti-Communist activities, had found Israel the only country ready to give her an immigration visa. But when Oriah and Moshe decided to marry, the local rabbi told them that Israeli law forbids Jews to marry Christians. The only way out was for Oriah to become a Jew, or for Barak to become a Christian-purely "as a matter of form." The young couple refused...
...Barak's fast was a success in the sense that it stirred public opinion and seemed certain to draw the Knesset's attention to the whole issue of religious marriages. But in threatening to kill himself in defense of his position, Hunger Striker Barak had offended many Israelis who believe in less dramatic forms of debate. "The straightforward and democratic way of revising laws is by tabling a proposal before the Knesset," wrote Attorney General Haim j Cohen. "Except in times of emergency j . . . there can be no other way, and I pray there never will be another...