Word: jaffa
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...even worked in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, though its jagged musical qualities are rather daring by Israeli standards. The players were happy to get away from the old warhorses, but the management was troubled, especially when empty seats-as rare for the I.P.O. as snow in Jaffa-began showing up in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv...
...wonderful matrix of ignorance." London mail-order companies report that most orders for Che posters are now coming from teen-age girls who find his unkempt good looks sexy. Asked what he knew about Che, one Arab guerrilla claimed that he was an important fedayeen who came "from Jaffa, I think...
Part of his franchise was to see his master in the most majestic terms, and Bonaparte Visiting the Pest-Ridden of Jaffa, showing the conqueror touching the sores of a hapless victim of the plague, was clearly intended to portray Napoleon as the modern hero sans pareil. But the picture is redeemed by the sharply observed bodies of the stricken. David would probably have laid the scene in a bare hospital room, and Gros considered just that. But feeling the need tor a more theatrical setting for his hero, he conceived of a Moorish courtyard looking out on the ramparts...
...fruits of commercial fraternization are also growing fast on German ground. In 1968, West Germans bought $56 million worth of Jaffa oranges, polished diamonds, flowers, tires and other goods. Their purchases amounted to 10% of Israel's total exports. Last month thousands of Stuttgart residents strolled the city's main streets, peering into shop windows that displayed jewelry, clothes and other products during an "Israeli Week." Trade between the two nations is certain to go up much farther, according to officials of both. Partly because of a 40% tariff cut on citrus, just granted by the Common Market...
...meaning, in Israeli terms, the early European immigrants who have long provided the nation's elite, often to the frustration of the impatient native-born sabras. His early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer. In the 1930s, he was sent to Germany to help Jews emigrate to Palestine...