Word: saba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saba celebrates the good feelings among members of the program. "On the plane coming over here," he recalls, "no one knew anyone else, and hardly anyone spoke to each other. Now we leave with a very friendly feeling...
Avner Rothenberg, director of social education in Jerusalem, traces the problem to the structure of Israeli education, which is styled on the European model of a highly centralized system, with all control in the Ministry of Education. Elias Saba, senior lecturer at the Arab Teachers' College in Haifa, found the American contrast agreeable...
Rothenberg presses his point. "I feel a great tie between me and him"--pointing to this reporter--"simply because he is Jewish. It's a bond I don't feel with him"--pointing to Saba...
...Israel. There they earn up to $17 a day in construction work and other manual-labor jobs-four or five times what they used to make in the citrus groves. So prized are the skilled Arab hands that some Jewish foremen in the nearby Israeli town of Kfar Saba pick them up in taxis to take them to work...
Later in the morning there is a surge of traffic in the other direction as shoppers from Kfar Saba and other Israeli towns pour into the Kalkilya market to buy vegetables, fruit and textiles, which cost 20% less than comparable items in Israel. One Arab merchant, when asked if he had been able to make any Israeli friends, smiled and said: "Oh yes, I have many Israeli friends. They come and buy in my shops every week...