Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twisted wreckage of rusty train cars signals the approach to the Sinai capital of El Arish. After twelve years of Israeli occupation, the town reverted to Egypt in May 1979. Many of the local people speak both Hebrew and Arabic and merchants hawk Israeli goods. At the frontier, travelers are greeted by a sign bearing the word PEACE. Passports are checked and at a makeshift customs depot bags are briskly inspected before a short bus ride across a no-man's land to the Israeli side...
...many Israelis, the new elections could not come early enough. They are deeply worried about the prospect of the country being in the hands of a rudderless government. Said Meron Medzini, a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "We have here a terrible crisis of confidence. There are some people who are worried about the future of democracy." Said Knesset Member Uri Avneri, a longtime critic of the Israeli political Establishment: "The government is breaking apart. It's like metal fatigue...
...addition to 142,000 other Indochinese refugees and the 123,000 Vietnamese who were airlifted to the U.S. at the time of the American pullout from Viet Nam in 1975. That aid has been supplemented by scores of private voluntary agencies, such as the United States Catholic Conference, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the International Rescue Committee, which have taken charge of the actual resettlement of the refugees...
...charge of the RSV revision is the Rev. Bruce M. Metzger, 66, a gentlemanly New Testament professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. While Metzger is conservative on matters of doc trine, he is willing to avoid male nouns and pronouns-where the original Hebrew and Greek texts allow it. Thus the reference in Romans 14: 1 to "the man who is weak in faith" will likely become "the one who is weak . . ." In Psalms, the first verse will read "Blessed are those who walk not in the counsel of the wicked," rather than "Blessed is the man who walks...
...also thwarted Gazit's academic ambitions. Although he received his mater's degree in archaeology from Hebrew University--like fellow Israeli diplomat Moshe Dayan--escalating hostilities with the Arabs led Gazit to conclude that he had to "continue serving the new state rather than minding my own little shop...