Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious law the two children became mamzerim (children of an adulterous union) and ineligible to wed anyone but other mamzerim or converts. The efforts of Hanoch and Miriam to marry their sweethearts in a valid religious ceremony became a celebrated case. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became their advocate. Some Knesset members introduced bills which would allow civil marriage in Israel for the first time; the National Religious Front promised to bolt Golda Meir's coalition if such a law were passed, and even Mrs. Meir threatened to resign unless the case was resolved...
...Referees has decided on a more practical tactic. Last April, after a record total of 42 referees were injured in 175 riots and fights during the season, the union went on strike. "Soccer fields have become battlefields," Labor Party Member Shoshona Arbeli said in a speech before the Knesset (parliament). "Human life is in danger. Hatred is fomented between one town and another. The referees are right to strike...
Israel last week declared a new war on the Arabs. It will be fought on a "farflung, dangerous and vital front line," Premier Golda Meir grimly told the Knesset, "with all the assiduity and skill of which our people are capable." Thus last week, in the aftermath of the Munich murders, the Israeli government vowed to carry the war of terrorism back to the Arabs-guerrillas and host countries alike-and to strike at times and places of Israel's own choosing...
...Israel's longstanding aversion to the death penalty. That policy served the country well when fedayeen crossed over from Jordan or Lebanon; once cornered, they usually surrendered, knowing that the worst that could happen to them would be life imprisonment. Now several members of the Knesset suggested that fedayeen should be sentenced to death, then held indefinitely in case of another Munich. If terrorists killed Jewish hostages, the Arab prisoners would be summarily executed...
...Knesset, Deputies argued about whether the death penalty should be invoked in Israel, where it has been applied only once, against Adolf Eichmann. As long as captured terrorists remain alive and in jail, goes the argument, they will be an incentive for other terrorists to capture hostages with an eye toward making a trade...