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...existence of gluons, already some bold theorists are using QCD in an ambitious attempt to succeed by other means where Einstein failed. That could eventually mean a union of all four of nature's basic forces -gravitation, electromagnetism and the nuclear strong and weak forces. Predicted Israeli Theorist Haim Harari of the Weizmann Institute of Science: "Five years from now when we look back, we will all agree that the gluon was discovered in the summer...
...Rabin makes virtually the same point: "I believe Sadat's conditions in his Knesset speech were his opening position. But Begin started out with Israel's end position. What was he thinking of?" Even Begin's resolute cheerfulness is being criticized. "His unflagging optimism," declares former Chief of Staff Haim BarLev, "is unfounded...
...rather than tough immediate measures to bring it down. Says Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin's chief rival in the upcoming elections: "Vision is worth more than economic study, and the dreamer gets better results than the best professor of economics." One such economist, Tel Aviv University President Haim Ben-Shahar, feels that only a decisive leadership, the kind that would be brave enough to stand up to political pressure groups and cut defense spending, can assure the growth that Israel needs desperately. And when might economic redemption arrive? Israelis like to invoke a rabbinic adage popular since...
...Tawfiq Zayad: "Many of Koenig's recommendations are already official policy. We are constantly spied on, we are discriminated against in the schools, our land is confiscated, and there are no government industries in the Arab sector." Even though Koenig's recommendations were considered unacceptable in Jerusalem, Haim Kubersky, Director-General of the Interior Ministry, supported Koenig's right to make them. Said Kubersky: "A Jewish majority in Galilee is a legitimate goal." Perhaps. But if anything seemed bound to stir up the kind of political consciousness among Israeli Arabs that worried Koenig, it was exactly...
...culture the Holocaust helped to destroy. And this is where he's at his very best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck and--for a sinister Calvinist-type--Benjamin Fatalist ("The Fatalist"); or describing holiday revels ("Passions...