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...Yair Lapid, a columnist from the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, sums up the elections: "The people do not want to continue to hold on to the [occupied] territories, it supports the next disengagement, and it isn?t willing to see its grandfather starve to death...
...internal revolt that could see Labor once again accepting the junior role in Sharon's government, but if not, he may have to look towards a narrower coalition of hard-line nationalist and religious parties. The wildcard in the current election, however, is the centrist Shinui party of Tommy Lapid, which has surged from the political margins on a platform of militant secularism. Lapid's peace policies are somewhat vague, but his challenge to the privileges of the ultra-Orthodox who are exempt from military service and study at state expense has proved so popular that Shinui stands...
...when two of his friends were ambushed by Arab attackers near Kiryat Arba, the West Bank settlement just outside the Palestinian city of Hebron that has long been a magnet for the most aggressive Jewish ultranationalists. As head of the local emergency medical team, Goldstein was called, and Mordechai Lapid and his 19-year-old son died in his arms. "After a number of friends and neighbors died, he considered the Arabs to be Nazis," says Kiryat Arba resident David Ramati...
Perhaps the most significant thing about Mordechai Lapid's death was not who ^ killed him, but where they did it. A Jewish settler from the West Bank town of Hebron, Lapid was standing at a bus stop with four of his 15 children last Monday night when several Palestinian gunmen opened fire from a passing car, cutting down Lapid and his eldest son. Just a few yards from where their bodies lay, bloodstains marked the spot where 48 hours earlier a group of Lapid's fellow settlers had stopped a car for no reason and shot into the passenger seat...
...expected to use the captured pilot as a bargaining chip in his efforts to free some 250 Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas believed held in a jail near the border by the Israeli- backed South Lebanon Army. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli army's chief spokesman, Brigadier General Ephraim Lapid, delcared, "We will not rest until we have recovered the missing man." The events in Lebanon almost overshadowed the bloody terrorist attack in Jerusalem scarcely one day earlier. Some 300 young recruits of the army's Givati Brigade had just been sworn in at Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall...
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