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...Israeli defense expert, whose specialty happens to be explosives, recently received a small package in Tel Aviv bearing the return address of a relative in Beersheba. His training saved his life. Ripping the package open, he suddenly realized that he had exposed and activated a minuscule plunger that even then was moving toward an equally minute detonator. In a split second the man slammed his hand down and stopped the plunger. Then he carefully carried the package to an automobile he summoned and had his driver take him to a nearby military base. The remaining contents of the package included...
Abigail was dead by the time the Israeli military helicopter arrived. Marc-Daniel died soon after. Aroyo buried them on the Mount of Olives, smoothing the dirt over their graves with his own hands. Then he hurried back to the Beersheba hospital where his wife was being treated for injuries to the spine and pelvis that took six months to heal...
ARIEL ("ARIK") SHARON, the paratroop general who heads the southern command of Israel's defense forces, is so fond of the Hebrew couplet that he has hung it over the entrance of his Beersheba headquarters. But the exuberant confidence that once made it so fitting has disappeared in Israel. A note of doubt is creeping in. From Mount Hermon down to the Red Sea, Israel dispatched her Arab foes with relative ease in three wars. But now there is a new unknown to cope with in the form of Russia's dramatically increased presence in the Middle East...
Died. Paula Ben-Gurion, 76, wife of the former Israeli Prime Minister; of a hemorrhage; in Beersheba. "I didn't marry a Prime Minister," she said once, "I made one." That was typical of the outspoken, Brooklyn-raised nurse who played wife, secretary and mother to B-G through 51 years of revolution, rule and final retirement to a kibbutz in 1963. Paula's touch was homey-she fetched thermos jugs of coffee to her husband at the Knesset during late-night debates-but her tongue was a national weapon. "I understand," she told Charles de Gaulle, when...
Desert near Beersheba. A warning by the Arab guerrilla organization El Fatah that Christmas tourists would not be safe in the Holy Land led the Israeli government to station 950 security police in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and to set up roadblocks in the area...