Word: mizrachi
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...time) on basic living necessities each month; by 1975 that figure had grown to 3,870 pounds ($630 at the rate then). Israelis making more than $13,500 a year are taxed at an average rate of 63%, which makes the inflation hurt more. Fairly typical is Esther Mizrachi, 38, a Jerusalem housewife, who says, "If we can pay for our food and our children's education, we'll feel lucky." Yet the Israelis manage somehow; they overdraw on checking accounts to meet food bills, artfully dodge a tax law here and there. Though a Volkswagen Beetle costs...
Despite the precautions, the base, which became fully operational eight months ago, is not quite so secret as the Israelis would like. The Yemenis said they had heard about it last summer from one Baruch Zaki Mizrachi, an alleged Israeli spy who confessed (probably under torture) that he had been assigned to thwart any land-based attack at Bab el Mandeb. Israel promptly denied it-and still does. Meanwhile, militarily powerless Yemen can do nothing about Israel's penetration except complain...
...Jews accepted Zionism so enthusiastically, mixing its political aims with their faith's ritualized nostalgia for the lost homeland, that most Orthodox rabbis and lay religious leaders have made a place for themselves in Zionism. They usually did so in one of two organizations: the 100,000-member Mizrachi Organization of America (founded in 1911) and the 50,000-member Hapoel Hamizrachi of America (founded in 1921). Last week, in convention at Atlantic City, N.J., the two merged into a new group to be known as the American Religious Zionist Organization, calling itself "the united religious voice of American...
...especially concerned with expanding Hebrew schools and training more Hebrew teachers. The organization will also raise money to support religious schools and settlements in Israel.* Elected president of the A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit's Mishkan Israel Synagogue, former national vice president of Mizrachi. Said Honorary Cochairman, Mordecai Kirshblum: "We represent the religious aspiration of Jewry to see in Israel not only a revival of the soil, but also of the soul...
...Jewish groups soon replied. Said Leon Gellman, of the World Mizrachi Executive: "An example of clerical anti-Semitism." Added B'nai B'rith President Philip M. Klutznick: "A disservice to the cause of democracy." In London, the archbishop's chaplain explained that the statement was "purely political." The archbishop is regarded as the Church of England's political spokesman...