Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particular concern of the government is the mood of young Israeli Arabs, who are far more likely than their elders to identify with the anti-Zionist cause of the Palestinians. Having grown up in the Jewish state, many of these Arab youths speak fluent Hebrew, know the customs of the country and can easily be mistaken for Jews. If sufficient numbers of them were to join the terrorists?a realistic possibility should the causes of Arab unrest continue?Israel might well find itself combatting a war on its home front as well as a threat on its frontiers...
...unfortunate for the Rabin government, since within the last month an internal personnel change has taken place which might be a signal for a major change in policy. Shlomo Avineri, a noted scholar of Marx and Hegel who served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was appointed Director-General of the Foreign Ministry, Israel's second ranking foreign affairs post. Avineri is extremely dovish by Israeli standards--in a recent issue of Foreign Policy he expressed support for return of the occupied territories and for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state...
This is Shaked's second visit to the United States as a visiting professor from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Five years ago he lectured at the University of California at Berkeley...
David Commanday '76 is this year's winner of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's concerto competition held Wednesday night in Paine Hall. Commanday will be the soloist with the orchestra on its March 12 concert in a performance of Schelomo, a Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch...
There was another mild embarrassment for both Kissinger and Rabin last week when the Chicago Sun-Times printed excerpts from a forthcoming book by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan-a nonpracticing lawyer who has served seven years as diplomatic correspondent for the Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz. The book, tentatively titled From Confrontation to Disengagement, purportedly draws on Kissinger's private conversations with newsmen and on secret minutes of his meeting with Israeli leaders. Although it was banned by censors, a revised edition was later approved. According to Golan, Kissinger criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon as lacking strength...