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Word: beersheba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign had exploded in anger and resulted in new and disquieting ethnic rifts in the population. Sephardi Jews, predominantly a working-class constituency in the new immigrant cities of Beersheba and Qiryat Shemona and the grimy slums of greater Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, rejected the traditional socialism of the Labor Party in favor of the radical right-wing nationalism of the Likud. In turn, the more affluent Ashkenazi Jews from northern Europe backed Labor. Ironically, Begin, an Ashkenazi from Poland, was idolized by his more extremist Sephardi followers, who proclaimed him "King of Israel" in campaign slogans and songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Election: But No Mandate | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...which the country is dependent on the U.S. as its major source of economic and military aid, no one would seriously suggest cutting the umbilical cord. "Ideally, of course, we'd like to be free and independent of everybody," shrugs Haim Marantz, 40, a philosophy lecturer at Beersheba's Ben-Gurion University, "but we're not that much worse off than England or Italy in this respect." Part of the reason for the relative ease with which the Israelis accept their dependence on the U.S. is the enduring cultural love affair most Israelis have for everything American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Troubled Land of Zion | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...does not look much like a prison. The buildings, flanked by two concrete watchtowers, are single-story and look like huts. At first glance, the place might be just another secret government installation. It is in fact a three-month-old, maximum-security prison located 70 km south ,of Beersheba. Until late last month hardly any Israeli or foreigner had heard of Nafha prison, which is designed to hold at full capacity 110 hard-core security offenders. But today Nafha is fast becoming a political rallying point for West Bank Arabs; already it is the focus of an Israeli Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Spreading Hunger Strike | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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