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...coffee and try to explain themselves and their country," he says. "That includes kibbutzniks at Negba, who gathered three generations of their members and over cookies and fruit juice told me how it was fighting Egyptians in '48 and how it is now fighting the economy; Author Amos Oz, who interrupted work on his new novel to explain how deeply Israelis care about what other people think of them; and Opposition Leader Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who took time from their election campaign for private interviews with TIME." Kelly was accompanied on his rounds by TIME...
...attempt to survive and flourish, lost its grip on the destiny that made it special; that Israel has become just another nation, flawed and fallible. In kibbutzim and Tel Aviv apartments, army posts and Jerusalem cafes, Israelis echo what one of their best-known novelists, Amos Oz, plaintively asked in his book In the Land of Israel: "What will become of us? What can be done...
...banned from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. For former President Yitzhak Navon, 63, the dilemma cuts to the very heart of what Israel should be. "Are we going to live according to the laws of Moses or to the laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will choose from this great inheritance, to decide what I will place in my living room and what I will relegate to the attic." Since the religious strains stem from such passionately held beliefs, they will never completely...
...diverse places as Morocco, Greece, Yemen and Iraq. Initially a minority (17% in 1948), the Sephardim now make up 55% of the population and about half the electorate. It is the Sephardic votes that in 1977 swept Begin to power. In the past seven years, the Sephardim, says Author Oz, "have risen from the emotional position of second-class citizens into the emotional state of owners of the country" (see following story...
...mother Princess Caroline of Monaco while her husband Stefano Casiraghi, 23, and her father Prince Rainier, 61, looked on. Caroline, 27, who has given up drinking and smoking in order to breastfeed, said she was "not the least tired" after giving birth to the 6-lb. 6-oz. boy, calling the experience "the most beautiful day of my life...