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...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...
...Israel's most vulnerable. For that reason, the government has established there a necklace of nahals. fortified camps manned by young Israelis who are equally able to farm or to fight. But where the Dead Sea provides natural protection, Israel is developing tourist attractions. In the vicinity of Masada, the legendary fortress of ancient Hebrew history, there are now three hotels with 228 rooms as well as two guest houses and three youth hostels. Another hotel, the Pan American Dead Sea (no kin to the airline), will be finished in 30 months at a cost of $5 million...
Still, there is more to valor than merely being first. For the Stoics, courage was every man's key to the province of the divine. From the Jewish defenders of Masada to the early Christian martyrs to the passive resisters Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the going was the goal-to be afraid was worse than death itself...
...UNVANQUISHED (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). The drama of Masada in the year A.D. 73, when the Jewish defenders of the desert fortress committed suicide be fore their Roman conquerors, is re-created in observance of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights...
...potsherds, Yadin believes, could well have been used in the final casting of the lots by Ben Ya'ir and his ten commanders, just before the advance guard of the Tenth Legion breached Masada's walls and found all of the defenders dead...