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Israeli Health Minister Ephraim Sneh suggested in an interview with the Washington Post that his government was behind Shakaki's assassination, but then retracted the statement, and later said the newspaper's account was wrong. The Post stands by the story. "The only people who could have made the decision to kill Shakaki were the top five ministers, and Sneh isn't one of them," says TIME's McGeary. "Still, he could have known about it: it is a working assumption on all sides that the government was behind the hit. It is also in the interests of the Israelis...
...Ephraim Littlefield, still full from his Thanksgiving dinner the previous day, attacked the vault again with his hammer and cold chisel. He desperately wanted to know what was inside there...
...Although Israeli confidence in the virtues of accommodation with the Palestinians has been shaken, Hamas may have actually improved the prospects for peace by laying down a challenge the Israelis can only answer. "We can't afford to grant them the satisfaction of stopping the talks," says Health Minister Ephraim Sneh. "We have to defeat them, not surrender to their demands." That may entail accepting a less perfect peace than the Israelis had envisioned, with a less perfect partner than they had hoped, but a peace nonetheless...
...settlement on the ground." That leaves a host of urgent issues to resolve if the first stage of the pact is to be implemented as planned in the next two to four months. "They range from questions of security to issues of regulating the tomato trade," says Ephraim Sneh, a Labor Party Knesset member. Among the most immediate issues...
Thus, when a Jewish interviewee named Ephraim Isaac says, "Abraham, for me, is my ancestor -- my very own personal ancestor," his words are shredded, sliced, diced, pureed by a live vocal quartet and set to the implied, inherent music of his speech rhythms and intonation, accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. In works such as the 1912 Pierrot lunaire, Arnold Schoenberg invented the device of sprechstimme, or speech-song; in The Cave Reich has perfected the principle and built an entire work upon...