Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Likud coalition have been as colorful as Ezer Weizman, 56, a onetime British Royal Air Force pilot who served for three years as Begin 's Defense Minister. He noisily resigned last May in a dispute over defense spending and the future of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Last week Israeli readers pored over selected controversial passages from Weizman's soon-to-be-published book, The Battle for Peace, a salty, 395-page memoir of the period straddling the 1978 Camp David accords. Excerpts...
...Sinai settler since 1974: "When we heard about Camp David, it was like someone saying our child was dying. I went through a period like mourning." Feifels and her husband Chaim run the general store in Yamit, an ambitious Israeli development town begun seven years ago near the Gaza Strip. Today Yamit is less than one-quarter complete. The stores in its tidy shopping center are gradually closing...
Dothan suspected that the antiquities came from the Gaza Strip, which Israel had also occupied during the war. She took her hunch to then Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, an avid amateur archaeologist and collector. Three months later he not only told her where the Egyptian materials came from-how he found out he never revealed-but also provided a military escort to the site near the Arab town of Deir el Balah, about 18 miles southwest of Gaza...
Dothan quickly spotted numerous fragments of old pottery, including bits similar to the Egyptian-style artifacts in Jerusalem. Since there were signs that grave robbers had been at work, Dothan wanted to start excavating immediately. But terrorism was still rampant in the Gaza Strip; it was three years before the army let her team begin. Even then, a squad of soldiers always stood guard and allowed no digging after 4 p.m. Dothan was not deterred. To help locate promising sites, she hired as her foreman a Bedouin named Hamad who had been doing some freelance digging...
...Cairo, the press glowingly, and incorrectly, trumpeted that an Israeli professor had found a pharaoh in Gaza. Newspapers in other Arab countries tried to turn science to political advantage by claiming the find was proof that Palestinians had been in Gaza for more than 3 ,000 years...