Word: hebrewism
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...little less than 50 years since its creation, Israelis are endorsing either the secular state or the Jewish state, but not both. The majority of secular Israelis, notwithstanding the Hebrew language they speak, have lost any substantive connection to Jewish culture and history. Religious rightists, on the other hand, have ceased to see the value of the secular state...
...long chain of Jewish history. It is not that they have suddenly ceased to be religiously observant. They were never observant, and that was fine. But even the most fervently secular Israelis used to have a degree of familiarity with classical Jewish literature, for instance, beginning with the Hebrew Bible. Whether or not the words were divinely inspired was unimportant. What mattered was that they were part of a canon of texts that were crucial to the formation of Jewish identity...
...assassination has dealt a terrible, humiliating blow to Shin Bet, the internal-security service supposed to be the best in the world. The head of Shin Bet, known only by his Hebrew initial "Kaf," acknowledged a complete security breakdown as Rabin descended from the podium at the end of the peace rally. Though close to 20 protective agents were present, Rabin was not cocooned within a ring of bodyguards facing in and out, nor was his back adequately shielded. No one had prevented Amir from hanging around the parking area where Rabin's car waited. Although Shin Bet knew Rabin...
Seven students from SAS and Hillel read personal statements and poems in Arabic and Hebrew...
...settlers, greatly intensified by Arab terrorism, finally produced an image of a monster in Rabin." Netanyahu himself did not help matters when he compared Rabin's Labor Party tactics to those of the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. According to Gadi Wolfsfeld, a lecturer in political science at Hebrew University, all the vicious talk may have inspired Rabin's assassination. "The hysterical language that what Rabin was doing was an act of treachery made someone think they would be a hero if he could stop the peace process by killing Rabin...