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...passes like any other day. I was here during Chanukah, when I would have liked to celebrate my holidays with my family. We non-Christians are not given vacation days to be with our families during the holidays that are important to us. This year Freshman registration was on Rosh Hashanah, one of the High Holy Days for the Jewish people...
...Moslem observance of the month of fasting called Ramadan coincided with Yom Kippur, Judaism's most sacred day. So did the start of the October war. This year Ramadan coincided with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day. There was no recurrence of open warfare, but Israeli jets did attack villages in the mountainous border region of southern Lebanon known as the Arqub. Since 1969, this area, which fans out from the slopes of Mount Hermon, has been known as "Fatahland" because Palestinian guerrillas regularly cross it from havens in Syria to infiltrate the Israeli border...
...Middle East they provoked harsh Israeli retaliation that shattered the status quo peace in the area and left further moves toward a more formal accommodation in doubt. On the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, flights of Israeli jets swooped over the borders of Lebanon and Syria, carrying out the heaviest strikes on those countries since the 1967 war. About 75 planes took part in the raids, bombing eight presumed guerrilla bases in Syria and four in Lebanon. Arab sources said that the attacks had left 66 dead and scores wounded. Israeli jets shot down three Syrian planes...
...bodies were borne off for individual services, 4,000 students demonstrated in Jerusalem's Independence Park. Ma'ariv, Israel's biggest newspaper, said: "We must cut off the arm of terrorism before it is raised to strike us again." Although Rosh Hashana is the nation's heaviest shopping season, stores were generally deserted. The customary greeting of "Shana Tova" (Happy New Year) was passed with ironic emphasis on the "happy...
...occupation of captured Arab territories has a decided look of permanence. The Israelis are building colonies-or, as their critics might say, an empire. On a three-day anniversary trip of his own, TIME Correspondent Martin Levin covered the 1,349 miles of border from the Mediterranean cliffs of Rosh Hanikra on the Lebanese side to the citrus-scented Gaza Strip. His report...