Word: nissim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They were exchanged for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis, including two pilots who had accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees. The following day, Major Nissim Ashkenazi, a top combat pilot shot down over Egypt in August, and Captain Giora Rom, whose Mirage jet was hit in September, were traded for 52 Egyptian civilians, five soldiers and one air force pilot. After Ashkenazi's return, Israeli officials reported that the pilot had been severely tortured...
Rothberg's anti-hero is Jacob Nissim, a veritable Aryan in appearance-blond, crew cut, blue eyes, short straight nose-but in experience perhaps too pat a symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution. A product of the Warsaw ghetto, Nissim escapes at 13 from the cattle car that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth...
...accomplished killer, Nissim carries out his mission. But Rothberg is far too skilled a storyteller to let him escape unscathed. Nissim has always lost whatever he has loved, but he has survived, and at last he no longer doubts the value of that gift. "On the last six days of Passover," he says, "Jews say a special prayer-the half Hallel. Tradition has it that when the Egyptians, in pursuing the Jews, were drowning in the Red Sea, the Lord kept His angels from singing His praises, admonishing them, 'How can you sing hymns while my creatures are drowning...
...chair of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi has been vacant; last week the 125-man Rabbinical Electoral College chose for the post Dr. Iser Judah Unterman, 77, white-bearded Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and onetime Chief Rabbi of Liverpool. They also re-elected the Sephardi incumbent, Dr. Yitzhak Nissim...
Religious Jews are a minority in Israel, but there are enough that the Chief Rabbis can keep hotels, restaurants, airlines and ships kosher by threatening to place them off-limits. The choice of Unterman and Nissim means that many of the religious strictures so galling to nonobservant Jews will continue. Telegraph service is curtailed on the Sabbath (Saturday) and on religious holidays, and in most cities and towns there is no public transportation. Except for a few Christian Arab areas, pork products are not for sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights...