Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actually, the holiday was celebrated on April 25, in accordance with the ancient Hebrew calendar...
...National Police Chief Shaul Rosolio went on television to alert against possible Palestinian attacks marking the date. Early last Tuesday morning, guards discovered that some commandos had punctured a 10-ft.-high protective fence and crossed over the border from Lebanon north of Ma'alot (which means "heights" in Hebrew...
...Open up!" one yelled in Hebrew. "We are police looking for terrorists." Most of the inhabitants, sleepy and frightened, refused to comply with the demand. But a forester named Joseph Cohen, 48, opened his door?and was immediately cut down by automatic-weapons fire. His son Eliahu, 4, was also killed, and his daughter Miriam, 5, wounded. His wife Fortuna, seven months pregnant, tried to flee the intruders, but was machine-gunned. The only one in the family not killed or wounded was 16-month-old Yitzhak Cohen. He never attracted attention by crying; he is a deaf-mute...
Moving back into the street, the Palestinians stumbled onto a municipal worker named Jacob Kadosh, 59. "Who are you?" they asked. "A Jew," said Kadosh. "Which way to the school?" demanded the Hebrew-speaking Arab. The puzzled Kadosh pointed, and then was shot in the shoulder. The three men advanced to the school, 100 yds. away, and were inside before the guards realized that they were there. Waving guns and hand grenades, the Palestinians jolted the sleeping students awake with kicks on the feet. "Lakum, lakum [Get up, get up]!" they yelled. Fifteen students, a few teachers and the rabbi...
...work with fungi took him to Cologne, Germany in 1960 where he studied as both a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. In 1967 he was visiting professor of Genetics at Hebrew University in Israel...