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Netanyahu was raised to achieve. His mother Cela studied law, and his father Benzion is a historian whose lifework, a study of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, was published to acclaim last year. Called Bibi from childhood, after a cousin, Netanyahu inherited his right-wing politics from his father, a disciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism. To members of that movement even David Ben-Gurion was not sufficiently nationalist. Netanyahu can be touchy about his family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently...
...MARRIED. BENZION MEISLES, 19, grandson of the head of the New York-based Bobover Hasidic Jews, and HAIYA ERENTSER, 17, granddaughter of the leader of Israel's influential Vishnitz group; in Bnei Brak, Israel. Many of the 20,000 guests had to watch the union of two of the largest Hasidic dynasties on closed-circuit television. According to custom, the bride and groom had met only three times prior to the ceremony. EXPELLED. ARJUN SINGH, 64, minister turned outspoken critic of the government of India's Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao; from the ruling Congress Party for six years...
...when his family moved from Israel to the U.S., where his father, Benzion, planned to do research on Jewish history. After graduation from high school in Philadelphia. Netanyahu enlisted in the Israeli army. He remained in the army until he entered Harvard...
Terrorism lives or dies on whether it achieves success. -Israeli Scholar Benzion Netanyahu...
...Jewish leaders have rejected the council decision as inadequate. "It's been a disgrace to the institution that they've been so petty and unjust," Jay R. Rothstein '71, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, said yesterday. "Harvard University expects its Jewish students to desecrate their sabbath," Rabbi BenZion Gold, University Jewish chaplain, charged last night...
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