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SAMUEL FULLER took the crew of his picture, The Big Red One, to Israel because the Judean Hills today look like the hills of Sicily during World War II. The Israelis cooperated. After all, an American film crew spends a lot of money and hires a lot of extras. Fuller needed extras to play Nazis, foils for his heroes, five musketeers who are members of the U. S. Army's First Infantry Division--the big red one. The Israeli extras unflinchingly donned the Nazi uniforms and marched beside panzers into the desert sun, prepared to die on cue.Fuller...
Even as the U.S. was renewing its effort to get Israel and Egypt together on an autonomy agreement for the occupied territories, tensions were running high in a West Bank town that has become a symbol of the problem. Situated in the Judean hills 20 miles southwest of Jerusalem, Hebron is an ancient site revered by both Jews and Muslims. Jews believe it was the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Muslims also revere Abraham as a prophet and call the town Al-Khalil (Friend of God) after...
...followed by other 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...
...likely that he was born in the previous spring, perhaps during the May conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The argument supporting this comes from the Bible, Luke 2: 8: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." The Judean shepherds were out all night only in the spring. During winter there was no grazing, and the animals were penned...
...from sex to theology, James A. Pike became America's most controversial 20th century clergyman. As an infant in Oklahoma, he won the Better Babies contest at the state fair two years running. In 1969, still hyperactive at 56, he got lost and died in Israel's Judean desert−and was the first Episcopal bishop ever to have three surviving wives attend the memorial service at his old cathedral in San Francisco...