Word: jericho
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This year Alon has joined forces with al Khateeb and a Palestinian conservation crew to put up birdhouses in the West Bank. Together they had the wonderful idea of enlisting the help of children--from both sides of the Middle East divide. In February, 50 Arab kids from Jericho and 30 Jewish kids from Jerusalem converged at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo to learn to make the birdhouses and get to know one another. Coexistence didn't come easily. A Jewish fifth-grader, tears of frustration flowing down her cheeks, rushed to her teacher. An Arab boy wouldn't give...
...stood with my parents in Jericho and looked out at the Allenby Bridge crossing, wondering if I 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...
...then, "at last," writes Kirsch, "Moses seemed to run out of both laws and memories." The 120-year-old "went up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, opposite Jericho," recounts the Bible. And then, "Moses the servant of the Lord died there at the command of the Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom...
...Aviv began playing host at weekly meetings between officials from both sides to share intelligence on terrorists. Tenet has since flown four times to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and the CIA has set up a satellite office in the Gaza Strip, along with "operations rooms" in Jericho, Hebron, Ramallah and Nablus, to help in communications with Arafat's agents...
...situation where Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other?" asks TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. The militant Hamas movement -- whose political signature is the suicide bomb -- has already denounced the gaming house, and even some of Yasser Arafat's own supporters have protested. "A casino in Jericho offends not only Hamas, but also many ordinary Palestinians," says Hamad. "There will be no surprise if they start to attack the place...