Word: neves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor neighborhood not far from Istanbul's Galata Tower, the small group of worshipers assembled for the 8 a.m. Sabbath service last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
Akbulut told The Associated Press police found 102 spent cartridges on the floor of the Neve Shalom Synagogue. He said the assailants entered at about 9:20 a.m., secured the main door, then stood about 10 yards apart and began firing submachine guns into the congregation...
...government last week announced that it would expropriate 1,000 acres of land-68% of it owned by Arabs-in East Jerusalem. The expropriation plan calls for the construction of 10,000 housing units for Jewish citizens on the confiscated land. The residential complex will link two existing settlements-Neve Yaacov and French Hill-and thus complete the encirclement of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem with Jewish suburbs. At least in spirit, the seizure violated a Cabinet decision last October that privately owned Arab land in the occupied territories would not be taken for Jewish settlements...