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...situation in Gaza, Israelis like Matzliach feel little pressure to leave from the Golan's Arab inhabitants - unlike the huge Palestinian majorities in the West Bank and Gaza, there are now just four Arab towns in the Golan. Their Syrian inhabitants are mostly Druze Muslims, who speak Arabic and Hebrew, run apparently prosperous businesses and farms, and mingle easily on the streets with Israeli soldiers. "I've got many Israeli friends," says Yahyah Abu Shaheen, a 51-year-old contractor in the town of Buq'ata. "We've grown up together and we're human beings...
...museum official called it "a world-class find." What makes the ancient but seemingly mundane receipt significant is that the book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) mentions the exact same official - though under a different transliteration, Nebo-Sarsekim, and a different title, chief officer, as accompanying the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar when he marched against Jerusalem...
...case of the Israeli soldier Shalit, however, it is Hamas' own military wing that holds the captive. It released an audio recording on its website today of Shalit, in which a voice identified as belonging to the 20-year-old soldier says in Hebrew: "I've been in prison one year. My situation is deteriorating. I need an extended period in hospital." The voice adds: "I am sorry that the Israeli government has not shown more interest. It should meet the demands of my kidnappers so I can be released." Shalit's only previous communication had been a handwritten letter...
...Harvard’s first Commencement ceremony in 1642, the nine graduates proved their proficiency in three ancient tongues with Latin and Greek orations as well as a “Hebrew Analysis Grammatical, Logicall and Rhetoricall of the Psalms.” According to Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morrison, Class of 1908, the graduates and their guests retired to the mess hall at 11 a.m. for “plenty of good substantial food” washed down by barrels of the young College’s own beer. They then returned to the Yard for an afternoon...
...glorious grief, she croons on "In Your Back," where you are the valet of honor and I am the thief. While her English is fluent, her way of forming words is international; mostly North American, but also with a slight French curviness, a few of the hard consonants of Hebrew - and for certain words, what sounds like an Irish inflection. Maybe even a hint of Dutch traces in there as well. But when she sings, it's with the elocution of a modern American folk-rock troubadour...