Word: hebrews
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Kelsen, a former Undergraduate Council officer who has been studying Middle Eastern politics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on a Wallenberg fellowship, knew what he was getting into when he went to Tel Aviv to work as a translator for The Philadelphia Inquirer...
Most of the Americans studying in the Hebrew University program had already left the country, Kelsen said. The few who remained--mostly Jews, he Said--were simply watching and waiting for the next move...
...first the olim (Hebrew for immigrants) must be assimilated, a task for which the government remains critically unprepared. Officials warn that available shelter will run out by March, despite plans to purchase 33,000 mobile homes and to bunk at least 100,000 new arrivals at 21 army bases. So far only a few thousand Soviet Jews have moved to the West Bank, but government incentives are luring other Jews there in search of cheaper housing. Last week Absorption Minister Yitzhak Peretz called for the creation of tent cities to help house the 400,000 immigrants expected this year...
Despite last week's firing, Strugnell retains scholarly rights to many important scrolls. The project is now under a three-man directorship led by Emanuel Tov of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, who says the new arrangement should "speed things up." But a speedup is not enough for Biblical Archaeology Review, which contends that only full access to photographs of unpublished texts will end the "scandal" of neglect...
Palestinians also have taken advantage of the access to various educational programs inside Israel, including Jerusalem's Hebrew University. In general, the empirical evidence hardly paints a picture of Israeli repression of educational opportunities for the Palestinians...