Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krakow in southern Poland boasts the only old city which did not need thorough reconstruction. Outside the walls, synagogues and buildings with Hebrew writing provide testament to a formerly vital Jewish ghetto. Six hundred elderly Jews live in Krakow now as compared with 65,000 before...
RABBI ALEXANDER M. SCHINDLER, New York City, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations...
...pinning its hopes on two big-ticket items. The Merkava tank is a new, wedge-shaped machine that can hold up to ten soldiers. Israelis like to point out that its $1.6 million price tag makes it the cheapest tank in the world. According to U.S. experts, the Merkava (Hebrew for chariot) outperformed the older U.S. M-60 tanks during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon...
...early 1990s, Israel's new fighter-bomber should be ready. Called the Lavi (young lion in Hebrew), the jet is touted by Israelis as the most potent in the Western world, complete with state-of-the-art weapons delivery systems and electronic warfare devices. Israel Aircraft Industries began designing the Lavi in 1980. After several U.S. firms turned down Israel's offer of a co-production deal, the Begin government approached the Reagan Administration. Eventually, Washington not only agreed to share U.S. technology with Israel but earmarked nearly $1 billion in development funds for the Lavi. When it finally comes...
Many Israelis disagree. In a poll published last month in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz, 60% said that the anti-Arab violence was unjustified, though 32% felt it was "totally justified" or had "a certain justification." Says Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "Self-appointed avengers weaken the state and reduce us to the level of other perpetrators of terror...