Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boldness, secrecy and speed of an Israeli commando raid-and it had the same kind of impact. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, still recovering from a three-week-old hip fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking about our very lives...
...Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. The Gush now has about 125 families settled in and around Yamit expressly to prevent the Israeli withdrawal. Just last week 25 families moved into the local motel. In addition, they were joined in Yamit by three militant members of the Israeli Knesset, including Geula Cohen, who was the author of the controversial measure passed by the parliament last year that annexed Jerusalem and infuriated the Arabs...
...search for peace that led the Egyptian President, in November 1977, to travel to Jerusalem and embrace his former enemies. Not only did he break a 29-year Arab ban on direct dealings with the Israelis, he went straight to the rostrum of the Knesset to proclaim his willingness "to live with you in permanent peace and justice." More dramatically than any event since the birth of Israel in 1948, that courageous gesture transformed the political realities of a region bloodied and embittered by continual hate, war and violence. As it is given to few individuals, with a single, personal...
...there was little cause for jest. The religious parties quickly showed their clout when vacationing Knesset members were summoned for a special session to discuss the legal issues raised by the disputed project. Members of Agudat Israel and some Deputies from the more moderate National Religious Party have argued that the archaeologists, who have a government license to excavate for relics of King David's 11th century B.C. biblical city, are actually disturbing the graves of a 700-year-old cemetery, thus violating religious...
...What shall be the deciding factor, religious law or secular law?" asked the Labor Party's Yaakov Tzur in the Knesset, raising the larger question before the Begin government. Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer, an NRP leader who is not opposed to the Old City excavation, equivocated in his reply, reflecting the government's dilemma. "We must follow the law of the state," he said, "keeping in mind the respect we must have for the halacha [religious...