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...write it for money. No one works five years on a book to get rich. I wrote it because I believe that there is a code in the Bible and that we would be foolish to ignore its apparent warnings. As the code's discoverer, the eminent Israeli mathematician Eliyahu Rips, told my publisher in a signed letter, the Bible code contained an accurate prediction of the Gulf War before it began. I was not being "defensive" when I told your reporter that I believe the Bible encodes all our possible futures rather than one predetermined future. I was simply...
Barely visible behind a lectern in Tel Aviv's Yad Eliyahu basketball arena, the diminutive Yitzhak Shamir struggled to make his voice heard. His Likud bloc must agree to share power with Labor, he pleaded, "to be united against the danger of a Palestinian state." But even that potent argument elicited little but jeers from hundreds of angry members of the right-wing Likud bloc's central committee. Cheers rang out only when Ariel Sharon, the big and assertive leader of the party's hard-liners, called for a narrow coalition without left-leaning Labor. "People in Labor...
There is one sign of a thaw. Last month Jewish leaders were notified that Eliyahu Essas, the leader of the Jewish religion and culture movement in the Soviet Union, would be allowed to leave the country. Essas, 42, a mathematician, has been waiting for an exit visa for twelve years. Some Jewish leaders are optimistic about an airlift. Says one source close to the negotiations: "The Soviets haven't said when or how many, but they've indicated they'll do it." For Soviet Jews, this could be the first crack in what might be an opening door...
...Friday, at about the time Ariel Sharon was telling an audience in Tel Aviv that "the mark of Cain" had been planted on his forehead by the week's events, several thousand Israelis attended the funeral, in the port city of Haifa, of Emil Eliyahu Greenzweig, 33, the victim of the grenade attack of the previous evening. Professor Elkana Yehuda spoke of Greenzweig, who had recently received a master's degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hebrew University, as "a symbol of love and tolerance." Yehuda expressed his hope that the current national debate would not lead to "the destruction...