Word: hochbaum
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...Leah Hochbaum giggles a lot for a radical fanatic. But the 26-year-old mother of two from New York City possesses a will of steel and a boundless faith that she is obeying God's commandment. When she heard Manhattan Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach say it was a Jew's duty to reclaim all the land of biblical Israel, she believed, and she came, not just to the Holy Land but to the very heart of the struggle, to the West Bank city of Hebron. After a year in the confines of the Avraham Avinu quarter, one of six minuscule...
Thanks to the immense difficulty of safeguarding the lives of 400 Jews like Hochbaum who refuse to leave, Hebron has emerged as the thorniest issue in the peace process so far. Despite an agreement signed by the previous Israeli government to pull back its troops and hand over most of the city to the Palestinian Authority, the redeployment has been delayed time and again for seven months while Israel seeks ways to provide sufficient "security" for the settlers. As Palestinian frustration threatens to unravel the peace, many Israelis fear the nation's fate is being held hostage by a tiny...
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