Word: sabra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabin has one advantage going for hun that none of his predecessors shared: he is a Sabra, a native-born Israeli. When he accepted the candidacy of his party last May, he declared: "The sons of the founding generation have come of age." Since that time, the Israeli public at large has come to appreciate his Sabra bluntness. In a debate on possible territorial compromises, Rabin said, "Even if we do not achieve peace, the people must be convinced that their leadership has sought every possible way to advance toward peace, has sought every possible way to prevent...
Rabin's selection shattered precedent. The shy, slender, native-born son of an American father and Russian mother is the first Sabra to be named Premier-designate after a succession of Eastern European Jews, including Mrs. Meir, who arrived in Palestine in the first waves of immigration. He is the youngest Premier-designate; almost the age of the state of Israel itself (26 years) separates him from 76-year-old Mrs. Meir. He is also the first nonpolitician to hold the job. He made his reputation first as armed forces Chief of Staff and the architect of Israel...
America on the Move had been hijacked-by its own producers. It seems that no sooner had Ed and Nick set up shop in Hollywood than they formed a second corporation, Sabra Productions Inc., which began shooting a movie in Israel. To finance the film, they dipped heavily into money allocated for the Teamster campaign, an action that has caused the U.S. Department of Justice to start an investigation. Ed and Nick argue that $400,000 of their Teamster budget was "profit" to use as they pleased. But they spent much more than that. Explains McMahon: "We misused the money...
Today's typical Sabra is tough, proud and seemingly unemotional. "Our children are ashamed to be ashamed," an Israeli psychoanalyst once observed. "They are afraid to be afraid." The Israeli-born Jew is also a bit weary of hearing about the sufferings of the Diaspora, if not openly scornful of the Diaspora Jew's passive acceptance of his fate...
...novel. War Is Not for Heroes, Ehud Ben-Ezer expressed a far different emotion that also reflects the ambiguity of the Sabra attitude. Before dying in battle, Ben-Ezer's young war hero declares, "We have become slaves of the sword, not masters of it. And in order to protect ourselves against the cruelty outside, we have become narrow-minded and cruel in our own homes." Within the heart of the Sabra, it has been said, Athens and Sparta are forever...