Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when two 21-year-old women gave birth some 24 hours apart. One had twin girls, the other a girl by caesarean section. Two or three days later, one of the twins and the other baby girl were accidentally switched, apparently by immigrant nurses who had trouble reading the Hebrew name tags. An observant supervisor quickly returned the babies to their correct mothers. But the women were worried. One complained that the baby given her did not look familiar, while the caesarean baby's mother said that the baby she now had could not have been hers because...
...privy to state secrets while working for an oil and gas company that promptly fired him. His fiancee Natalya Stiglitz, who had applied to leave with him, received her visa. They decided to marry before she left for Israel to wait for him. Natalya, who has since adopted a Hebrew name, Avital, is still waiting...
...exposure to the rigors of a prospective career, Boston University's "Journalism in Jerusalem" program is hard to beat. During two months, 29 students are lectured on politics and history by Hebrew University faculty members, then tutored by Jerusalem Post staffers on news reporting. Their grades are partly based on the quality and number of stories they get published back home. Says Director Elaine Littell: "This program challenges the would-be journalist with almost every problem he is likely to encounter-language barriers, a volatile political system, some censorship, uneasy and unfriendly borders...
Many thoughtful Israelis, hawks and doves alike, are alarmed by the long-term impact of the continued occupation, on Israel as much as on the West Bank. Says Emmanual Sivan, a professor of Islamic history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "For the generation of Israelis in their 20s, the occupation has been the natural order of things; this is certainly bad. They have learned that the Arabs are at the lower end of the ladder, which creates a vision of each other that is not conducive to coexistence. I'm not worried about whether...
Other Israelis acknowledge the injustice of the occupation but are troubled by the alternatives. "The occupation goes against the basic attitudes of Zionism," says Biblical Expert Shemaryahu Talmon of Hebrew University. "It's clear that we have not been able to turn the situation of ourselves as occupiers into one of cooperation. The obvious solution is to say, let's get out of it. But you can't return to a situation [before 1967] where Israel was twelve miles wide at its waist...