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...mother of the confessed assassin says she is his mother "only in body" and is appalled by what her son did. Geula Amir, a kindergarten teacher in Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv, told Israel TV that she and her husband raised their son Yigal to respect life. "Shlomo and I have been teaching (our children) love, tolerance, respect," she said. "Today he (Yigal) is not mine. It will stay with me to the grave - the pain and the fear about what can happen to a human being whom you have raised and ... given the very best basis possible." "This...
...Israelis, the question seems to turn on whether the uprising is seen as $ a civil rights struggle or a civil rebellion. "I'm not for freedom of the press," right-wing Knesset Member Geula Cohen asserted. "I'm for the freedom of Israel." But few expect the South African solution -- stopping the disorders by starving them of media attention -- to work in Israel. The often contentious Israeli press is unlikely to tolerate continued censorship. Ido Dissentchik, editor of the conservative daily newspaper Ma'ariv, called the shutdown of the territories a "hysterical step" by desperate officials trying to hide their...
...state of the economy was not the only issue that inflamed Israeli tempers last week. A visit by five members of West Germany's Green Party resulted in a fracas on the Knesset floor. Claiming that the Greens have expressed support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Geula Cohen of the right-wing Tehiya Party greeted the West Germans, who were sitting in the visitors' gallery, by holding up a poster that read BROWN GREENS OUT. The slogan was apparently intended to equate the left-leaning Greens with the Nazi Brown-shirts. Tewfik Toubi, an Arab-Israeli Communist who has been...
...disclosure caused a storm of protest. Geula Cohen of the Tehiya Party, a coalition member, said the next logical step was to put Abraham Lincoln's picture on the shekel. Other members described the "dollarization" plan as a blow to Israel's sovereignty that would make the country in effect the U.S.'s 51st state. Within hours, Aridor offered his resignation...
...ultra-Orthodox Jews have a birth rate that is three times the national average, and they also constitute the largest group moving into Jerusalem. As a result, they have been trying to take over areas near the overcrowded Mea Shearim and Geula sections, offering twice the market value to entice secular Israelis to sell their homes and threatening those who refuse to move. At least one family has been burned...