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...Reuven Adler accepted the daunting challenge in the 2001 election of trying to soften Ariel Sharon's image. "He's a warrior. He's quite fat, and when he walks, he stomps along," Adler, an advertising executive, recalls thinking. "We had to give him some feminine appeal." Sharon, Adler calculated, was too far to the right on the political spectrum to gain broad support. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 representing the extreme left wing and 5 the far right, Adler figured, Sharon was a 4.7. The winner of every previous election had been a little right...
...term "illegal" deflects attention from the fact that the legal status of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza is contested, and their future had been put on the negotiating table as a "final status" issue in the Oslo process. His senior party colleague, Reuven Rivlin has said that Sharon plans eventually to evacuate 17 of the 130 permanent Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, in order to allow for territorial contiguity. Suffice to say that neither Abbas nor any Palestinian or Arab leader could accept settle a final-status deal that left half the West...
...hopeful sign that as the three religions battled over Abraham, they continued (without admitting it) to swap Abraham stories. The borrowings and counterborrowings, as old as the conflicts, make far more pleasant reading. The most heartening may be an Islamic tale cited by Feiler whose roots, scholar Reuven Firestone hypothesized, reach into both Judaism and Christianity. It is set after Abraham's near sacrifice of his son, whichever son it was. The moment of truth is just past; the father's hand is stayed. As the boy lies stunned on the altar, God gazes down with pride and compassion...
...short election cycle also makes it less likely that the rebellious left of Barak's Labor Party will oust him in favor of one of his critics, such as Knesset speaker Avraham Burg. "It's the only way for Barak to survive, because he knocks Netanyahu out," says Reuven Chazan, a Hebrew University political scientist. "But in the long term, he gains nothing...
...Reuven Avi-Yonah, a New York tax specialist, and Diane Ring, who works with the firm of Kaplan & Risedale, have both been offered assistant professorships. The offers have been approved by the faculty of the Law School and by the Corporation...