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...habits of Israelis, who are accustomed to spending their pounds freely. Emotionally, the government hoped, naming the new currency after the ancient Jewish coin would appeal to the Israelis' sense of history. According to Genesis 23: 2-19, Abraham paid 400 shekels to buy a burial site in Hebron for his wife Sarah. In Roman times the shekel was not only a coin but a symbol of Jewish sovereignty. In modern times the World Zionist Congress, for example, liked to refer to its annual levy on members as a shekel...
Egypt, specifically, is upset about the Israeli Cabinet's decision to grant Jews the right to settle in the heart of the West Bank Arab town of Hebron. Thus far, most of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have been located in rural areas or on the outskirts of Arab population centers; the Hebron decision understandably inflamed the Palestinian Arabs. Referring to Israel's settlements policy, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that he was "sad but optimistic" and expressed the hope that the Israeli government would "drop all these difficulties they are putting...
When Yeshiva Student Jesper Jehoshua Sloma, 23, was killed by an Arab sniper last month in Hebron on Israel's occupied West Bank, a three-doctor panel at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital authorized the transplant of his kidneys to save two patients. Many Israelis were incensed that one of the recipients was a twelve-year-old Arab girl wearing a Palestine Liberation Organization bracelet, but the transplant particularly offended many Orthodox Jews. To them, religious law forbids tampering with corpses in any way, either by transplants or autopsies, and last week they pursued their campaign to outlaw autopsies...
...prominent West Bank mayors visiting Washington for a two-day conference on Palestinian rights scarcely encouraged that hope. Fahd Qawasmi of Hebron and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah told their American audience that Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza overwhelmingly support the P.L.O. "as our representative" and would refuse to deal with Israel until they regained sovereignty over their ancestral lands...
Palestinian resentment has been heightened by a series of provocative acts committed by Israeli extremists. In mid-March, two Palestinians were shot and killed by Jewish settlers during a rock-throwing barrage near the town of Hebron. In late April, a group of Jewish women and children occupied a vacant building in Hebron that was once used as a Jewish hospital; their aim, they said, was to take over all buildings in the town that had ever been owned by Jews. After the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that a parcel of confiscated land be returned to Arab control, vandals destroyed...