Word: druckman
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...standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used the latest scholarship to offer versions that are as musicologically accurate as possible. In honor of its centennial next season, the Met has commissioned new operas from Composers Jacob Druckman (on the Medea legend) and John Corigliano (based on the third of Beaumarchais's Figaro plays...
...Sinai. Thus, when Begin faced his 25th no-confidence motion since 1977 and his fifth since his re-election last June, he was opposed not only by the Labor Party and two small minority groups, but by a handful of his usual supporters. Chief among these was Rabbi Haim Druckman, 49, a Deputy Minister who belongs to the six-member National Religious Party. The bronze-bearded Druckman, the father of ten, holds the view of many religious Jews that the northern Sinai, extending to El Arish in the southwest, is part of the biblical Eretz Yisrael and should...
...Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...last week's Knesset session, attention was focused on Begin, who leaned heavily on a cane as he took his seat at the government's table, and on Rabbi Druckman, who sat two rows behind the Prime Minister. Begin took occasional notes as Opposition Leader Shimon Peres perfunctorily charged the government with incompetence in its handling of the West Bank. Demanded Peres: "What are our ambitions? To add 1.3 million Arabs, against their will, to Israel, and make Israel a binational state on a one-way street to conflict...
When the Prime Minister had at last finished, the chamber fell silent with expectation. Asked Speaker Menachem Savidor: "Who is in favor?" And when Druckman quickly raised his hand, along with 57 other members of the Knesset, the 58-58 tie vote was inevitable. His bad leg propped on a hassock under the bench, Begin could not look behind him to see how Druckman had voted. His Deputy Prime Minister, Simcha Ehrlich, broke the news to him. Begin then turned in his seat, grimacing, to stare at Druckman for a moment. When Savidor announced the vote, Begin rose...