Word: bireh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Khalil runs the Society of Ina'sh El-Usra in Al-Bireh, a combination kindergarten, secondary school, vocational training center, gift shop, museum, charity, folklore institute, and a general haven for Palestinian children that she built up with her own dogged will in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. She is called Urn Khalil by the children and staff, and she looks um?built low to the ground, unlikely to topple. She is about 60. Her voice is made for speeches; her hair tied back to promote the clear, essential face. When you tell her that she reminds...
...Arabs. Since July, all three of the univer sities have been subject to military super vision. The tensions on the West Bank reached a break point after Israeli author ities shut down Bir Zeit University to prevent it from holding "Palestinian Week" activities. In El Bireh, a small town near by, about 50 high school girls gathered to protest the shutdown and threw stones at a passing Israeli car. The dozen or so soldiers trying to control the demonstration fired first in the air and then, when this brought no response, at the girls' legs. One 1 7-year...
...controversy broke over a report published in the Washington Star. The newspaper charged that within days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...
...about the same time, a municipal driver in the city of El-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, arrived at the home of Mayor Ibrahim Tawil, 41. He told Tawil of the explosion of Khalaf's car and warned the mayor not to use his own car. Later, when an Israeli army demolition expert approached the locked garage where Tawil's Peugeot was kept, a bomb planted in front of the door exploded, blinding the soldier...
...free." The children, ages three and four, held hands as they sang The Song of the Bird in the sun-drenched courtyard. The song was written by Rima Terazi, 48, a member of the Society of In'ash El-Usra, a Palestinian rehabilitation center in El-Bireh on the West Bank. It includes a day care center for Palestinian children whose fathers are imprisoned for political crimes and also offers courses in homemaking and secretarial skills to improve the living standards of Palestinian women. Says Mrs. Terazi: "The special circumstances of our situation made it imperative that...