Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Manley died Saturday afternoon after a fall from the 14th floor of his high-rise dormitory. Though he was rushed to Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he was pronounced dead on arrival...
...most television teen soap-operas, what makes the setting unusual is a remarkably generalized beauty, a kind of atmospheric attractiveness that immediately romanticizes the proceedings, however trivial. Here, there's a quite different kind of exoticization of the banal: these post-pubescents are forced to grow up in Israel--and they're Orthodox Jews...
...could ever go see the wonders on the other side of the unassuming Jordan river: the Roman city at Jaresh, the Biblical Har Nevo in the Gilad Mountains, the unspeakable wonders of Petra. Now, I know dozens of friends who have traveled this now-trendy tourist route from Israel to Jordan and hope to spend my spring break sleeping nights on the East Bank...
...wars: They too feel safe in Petra and Jaresh, and flock to the novelty of a secure Arab metropolis in Amman. King Hussein is especially beloved here for his emotional speech at the death of his friend and colleague Yitzhak Rabin and, in an occasion less well known outside Israel, his visit to comfort the families of seven Israeli schoolchildren killed by a Jordanian soldier. King Hussein joined the families on the floor, as is the traditional Jewish mourning custom. And today, it is Israel's turn to comfort their brethren in Jordan...
...Jordanian people, wishing them health and comforting them. Thousands stood outside in the rain over the weekend, praying for the king and holding giant paintings of their leader, who spent 47 years on the throne. Maybe these outpourings of grief come as no surprise, but the echo here in Israel--the way people have gathered around radios to hear the developments, the statements of sympathy the politicians have made--reflects an uncommon respect among the Israeli people for this former enemy who had become a dear friend. King Hussein demonstrated that at least for a little while, the lines...