Word: sabra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rabin was a special symbol for us," Israeli author David Grossman told TIME's Sam Allis. "He was our mythological Sabra. He symbolized a certain uniqueness in the Israeli people. This was murdered today. He was very simple, very straight-forward. His Hebrew was rough. He was a man of action, not of words. That was his charm in the eyes of Israel. He expressed exactly what he thought." Grossman predicted in September that there would be bloodshed between the Israeli government and right-wing extremists, Allis recalls, citing the Israelis who called Rabin "murderer" and "a traitor...
...away from his parents. For the Holocaust, the mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory of it would haunt the child and blight his life. Better he should be a sabra and kibbutznik, raised in the sunshine of Eretz Yisrael...
Delhi Darbar, like Sabra Grill and many of the Square's other ethnic restaurants, has attracted a faithful following already...
...come here because its very very good, very reasonable, and convenient," says Frank sanchez, a masters student at the Kennedy School, while waiting for his order at Sabra Grill...
Amal Rizkallah, 41, says she's a friend of the owner at Sabra Grill and sometimes picks up dinner for her family there...