Word: masada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when she went abroad on diplomatic missions with Henry, and now it is Grace Vance's turn to play tourist. While the Secretary of State conferred with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, his wife put on a blue and white cap reading SHALOM and took a helicopter trip to Masada, the hilltop fortress built by King Herod on the shores of the Dead Sea. Accompanied by Rachel Dayan and several other diplomats' wives, she looked with interest at the baths in the remains of Herod's 2,000-year-old palace. When the guide described how members...
...head of the operations division during Israel's 1948 war of independence, and he served three years as chief of staff of the new nation's army. Resuming his work as an archaeologist. Yadin led the digs at biblical Megiddo and Hazor and at the Masada fortress where Jewish Zealots held off a Roman siege for three years before committing mass suicide...
...bloc of Arab and Communist states, UNESCO voted last week to bar Israel from participation in the organization's European regional group. The group charged that Israel, in the process of developing Jerusalem, had failed to protect certain historical sites. *A reference to the mountaintop fortress of Masada, where 960 Jews committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to their enemies, the Romans...
...irony is that hundreds of thousands of Israelis are asking the very same question. In a country that has frequently been accused (even by its friends) of having a paranoid "Masada complex,"-the sense of discontent is all-pervasive. Almost like a biblical plague, the Arab attack on Yom Kippur 1973 swept away the sweet, fat, confident years that followed the 1967 war. The Israelis, having failed to win decisively, were left with a sense of defeat. The indecisive outcome of the war also uncovered a number of festering problems that had been obscured by the post-1967 boom...
...mosque and the Turkish baths. There she startled her conservative Muslim guide by asking whether men and women had ever bathed there together. The horrified guide said, "Oh, no, no!" He then added that women had been allowed to bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted in fluent French with a Franciscan friar...