Word: giora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees. The following day, Major Nissim Ashkenazi, a top combat pilot shot down over Egypt in August, and Captain Giora Rom, whose Mirage jet was hit in September, were traded for 52 Egyptian civilians, five soldiers and one air force pilot. After Ashkenazi's return, Israeli officials reported that the pilot had been severely tortured by his Cairo captors, and suffered several broken bones...
...eight compositions were quite varied in both medium and style. Of the two string works, Steven Jablonsky employs the light texture of slippery, imitative lines in his quartet, and Tison Street's Trio possesses great reflectiveness. Robert Koff and Tison Street, violins, Giora Berstein, viola, and Madeleine Foley, cello, all clearly had a technical mastery of the music...