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...formal dinner in a Beijing hotel last week, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin toasted a rotund 72-year-old at the table and offered a tribute: ''Mr. Eisenberg opened the doors to China for Israel.'' It was a rare moment in the public spotlight for Israeli tycoon Shoul Eisenberg, but senior officials at the dinner knew exactly what Rabin meant. Modern weaponry is at the heart of the Jerusalem-Beijing relationship, and Eisenberg has been selling Israeli defense technology to the Chinese for more than a decade. Eisenberg is the real-life version of the international power brokers who appear...
...decision to set up a Jewish state; a fiercely beautiful Israeli woman soldier throwing a grenade; poor Moroccan migrants as they glimpse Israel from a ship's deck; a gaunt refugee bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped of the trappings of high office. He catches Meir worrying about a pot on the stove; Menachem Begin on an airplane, bending over to help his wife put on her shoe; the great warrior Dayan gazing...
...many other important issues. I'm old enough to remember a similar style-vs.-substance debate about President John F. Kennedy. His enduring positive influence proves that he combined style with substance - as does a certain Senator from Illinois, who will be the next President of the U.S. Staton Rabin, Irvington...
...Crimson, which specifically discussed the Israel-Palestine issue. However, a number of professors argued that this amendment could not divorce the motion from Matory’s editorial. “There are words which cannot be unsaid,” said computer science professor Michael O. Rabin. “They are going to be a part of the history of our faculty, part of the history of Harvard, and that would mean that this vote implicitly verifies the fact that there were attacks on people, in this case, who wanted to express controversial opinions on the Israeli-Palestine...
...empty chair while listening to the initial objections of his colleagues. “Professor Matory desires a situation in which he may say whatever he wishes, no matter how outrageous or inflammatory,” government professor Eric Nelson said. Computer science professor Michael O. Rabin said he did not believe the proposal enhanced the Faculty’s existing free speech guidelines and moved to table Matory’s motion. “I think we can all agree that we have complete confidence in our leadership,” he said. “It would...