Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were traveling ran over a land mine--in South Lebanon. The Palestinian retaliatory shelling had been intentionally directed into agricultural fields in afterwork hours. The Palestinian deliberate decision not to inflict casualties, and their clear desire to uphold the spirit of the ceasefire, was not lost on the Hebrew press of Israel, which began to refer to this incident as the "diplomatic" shelling...
...week's events, several thousand Israelis attended the funeral, in the port city of Haifa, of Emil Eliyahu Greenzweig, 33, the victim of the grenade attack of the previous evening. Professor Elkana Yehuda spoke of Greenzweig, who had recently received a master's degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hebrew University, as "a symbol of love and tolerance." Yehuda expressed his hope that the current national debate would not lead to "the destruction of the Third Temple," a term that Israelis sometimes use for their 35-year-old state. Later, when Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren told the gathering, "Our hands...
...high strung as Kahan is low key, Barak (whose name means lightning in Hebrew) was the panel's conscience, its most strident and at times indignant voice. An international authority on commercial law, Barak offers a dazzling resume. He was, at 32, Israel's youngest full professor, at 38 its youngest Attorney General, and at 42 one of its youngest Supreme Court Justices. He is also, as the Jerusalem Post puts it, "a pillar of probity," a respected champion of individual rights, indifferent to rank and impervious to reputation. As Attorney General, in 1977 he sent to prison...
...without the need to cross any Arab towns and villages." Critics argue that this is central to the whole concept: the creation of Jewish communities that have nothing in common and little to share with the Arab society around them. The schools and shops will be Israeli, the language Hebrew, and culture and entertainment will be available in the Israeli cities only 15 or 20 minutes away...
...anywhere he please. Hence not quite three years after his expulsion from Argentina, he is a leading authority on Israel, having resided there in the interim. Countless sentences include the magisterial phrasing "We Israelis..." despite the fact that, as he readily confesses. "I have never been able to learn Hebrew...