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...been building since the annual inflation rate approached 300% in February. It gathered steam on Monday, when the leader of the tiny Tami Party, whose three members belong to the Likud coalition, called for early elections. The sudden about-face was partly attributed in some quarters to pressure from Nissim Gaon, a Swiss-Jewish multimillionaire and Tami benefactor. After Nigeria failed to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars for a chain of luxury hotels he was building, Gaon reportedly asked Shamir's government to allow Israeli banks in Switzerland to give him loan guarantees. When Finance Minister Yigal...
...Abuhatzeira have renewed tensions between the country's politically and culturally dominant Ashkenazi Jews, of European background, and the Sephardic Jews, from the Middle East, the Balkans and North Africa. Abuhatzeira is from the Sephardic community, which sometimes feels it is a second-class society within Israel. Wrote Nissim Gaon, president of the World Sephardi Federation, to the Jerusalem Post: "The feeling that there are two societies, separate and unequal, has reached a psychological boiling point...
...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...