Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still to be settled, as well, is how much money the U.S. must pay Israel for its withdrawal from the Sinai. The Israelis are reportedly asking $3 billion to $4 billion, but the haggling, which has long since become a routine aspect of relations between the two countries, is still going on. In 1970, the Nixon Administration paid dearly (to the tune of about $500 million a year in additional aid) for the ceasefire with Egypt. Henry Kissinger's 1975 Sinai agreement may well have been the most expensive pact ever negotiated. It not only pledged enormous financial...
Jewish religious orthodoxy and the pragmatic business of survival have always had a special kind of relationship in Israel, similar to that, say, between Washington and Moscow. But that detente has now suffered a severe rupture, and the cause is Jerusalem's four-year-old 420-room Hilton Hotel. The city's chief rabbi, Bezalel Zolty, 57, has yanked the five-star Hilton's certificate of kashruth, or kosher status. Reason: in his view, the hotel was violating the law of the Sabbath. As the agonized Hilton management knows all too well, the lifting of kosher status...
...Jewish and that many Jews work on Saturdays, Barkai refused to accept Zolty's demands, warning that "hundreds of Jews will be forced to leave hotel service." Although five other hotel managers caved in, the others are backing Barkai. So is Shlomo Goren, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, but his support has not changed Rabbi Zolty's view...
Jumping is status blind. The sport includes bankers and physicians, lawyers, grocery clerks, house painters, schoolteachers, coal miners and college students. Jock Covey, Henry Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...
...predators: wolves, jackals, hyenas and occasionally even a leopard. One after another, they partake of the roadside feast, while ignoring the nearby human observers. This remarkable nocturnal ritual is repeated once every two weeks at five locales in the bleak wastes of the Negev and Judean deserts, supervised by Israel's Nature Reserve Authority...