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...want to be conquerors," says Shmuel Goren, Israel's Defense Ministry coordinator for the occupied territories. Most of his fellow citizens no doubt share that sentiment. But Israel remains a conqueror, a country of 3.5 million Jews and 740,000 non-Jews that gained a quarter of its current territory by war in 1967 and ever since has ruled 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs by force. In just six days of fighting, Israel occupied 2,270 sq. mi. of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as the Golan Heights and the finger of Mediterranean seacoast known...
Fearing a court ruling in Miller's favor, Peretz came up with a compromise: he would approve citizenship but mark her identity card JEWISH (CONVERT). That upset not only Miller, who said it would make her a second-class Jew, but also former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He said that reminding a convert of the past was a "reprehensible" violation of religious law. Last month Israel's Supreme Court tossed out Peretz's proposal and ordered that Miller be registered...
...Goren, a staff member at the Office for Information Technology, said the program is "definitely very successful," and added that many students have used the processors...
...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 of the Third Temple," a term that Israelis sometimes use for their 35-year-old state. Later, when Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren told the gathering, "Our hands did not shed this blood," a Haifa man, Meir Gabai, shouted at him, "You shed this blood!" and others in the crowd called out, "Begin is responsible!" At that point, Olga Greenzweig, the victim's mother, got up and asked that everyone stop the shouting...
Repeated denials by archaeologists and other scholars that any graves exist on the controversial site met with incredulity among the ultraOrthodox. Israel's Chief Rabbi, Shlomo Goren, who had earlier issued a ruling forbidding the dig, made a dramatic appearance on national television, displaying a few teeth and photos of human bones, which he said he had gathered while secretly scouting the area. Said Goren: "I found the bones with my own hands. I dirtied two suits. I have a whole sack of bones I could have brought with me." The mounting opposition to the excavations caused Begin...