Word: barzilai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ISRAEL The Man Who Would Be King "Praised be the name," said tubby Meoded Barzilai in an Israeli court, "I am a very rich man." He was penniless when he came from Yemen 30 years ago, but now he lives with his two wives* and ten children in a snappy Tel Aviv apartment house and enjoys a substantial interest in five movie houses, an ice factory and a real estate business...
...years ago, he told the court, one of his wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel...
Solomon's Throne. Barzilai was delighted. But when his wife grew worse instead of better, he went around to Rabbi Barti again. What he heard this time was even more wonderful. "I have been told by the angels," said the rabbi, "that you are the Messiah, and once this is established you will be able to help your wife yourself." To prove that he was not lying, Barti took an oath on the Torah that all he had said was true...
Foolish Son. Screaming ambulances arrived a few minutes later to carry Shapiro to the hospital. When he was gone, police took the doughty Premier, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, Transport Minister Moshe Carmel and Health Minister Israel Barzilai to the hospital in cars to have their lesser injuries treated...