Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the poll became a subject of controversy even before its results were known. Though the survey was conducted by an Israeli firm in conjunction with sociologists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the actual interviewing was carried out in Arabic by some 40 Palestinians, who talked with a total of 441 people living in 58 West Bank towns, villages and refugee camps. The sample was selected to reflect the distribution of population according to sex, age and geographical location...
...latest unrest can be traced to a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last November to institute a "civil administration" for the West Bank and Gaza, replacing the purely military government that had prevailed since the occupation began in June 1967. Sharon put a Hebrew University professor of Arabic literature, Menachem Milson, in charge of the new administration. But mayors, intellectuals and student leaders in the West Bank were skeptical, fearing that the civil administration would evolve into a form of "autonomy" that would seemingly meet the requirements of the Camp David agreements but fall far short...
...revenue office administrator replied with a letter explaining why the Hebrew lessons could not be registered: the language was not approved by the ministry of education, and furthermore, Begun was not licensed to teach it. "If there were a need for the language to be taught," the letter continued, "it would be taught. Since it isn't taught, there is no need." Begun, the state decided, was not engaged in "socially useful work...
After doing his own research, Begun discovered that Hebrew was, in fact, approved by the ministry of education, since it was taught in a classical language program (from which Jews were excluded) at three universities Furthermore, according to Soviet law people who taught anything privately required no license whatsoever. But this research failed to impress the K.G.B. Began was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in Magadan, a Siberian town not far from Alaska. Now, twelve years after he applied to emigrate, he lives in a small town near Moscow and earns his living shovelling coal, a skill...
...only the Jews who wish to emigrate who are harrassed Many Soviet Jews recount incidents of K G B agents not only raiding secret Hebrew classes, threatening the teachers with imprisonment and interrogating children of kindergarten age. In October, on the eve of the Rosh Hashannah. Soviet police forcibly disperse the thousands of Jews who had gathered outside the synagogue on Archipove street to sing and dance. In the last year there has been a dramatic increase in the number of anti-Semitic books and articles published and therefore sanctioned by the government. Universities have begun to give separate...