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There is such a thing as an instant garden, more's the pity, but one pays a price for it. "Within the past three years or so," observes Larry Shapira, a horticulturist and consultant at Merrifield Garden Center outside Washington, "people have started coming in who just don't want to wait for smaller plants to become big ones. They want to go to the garden center in the morning, pick up the plant, drive the thing home, plant it, and have a drink under it that evening...
Unless the Americans discipline themselves to keep busy, they will quickly fall prey to what Israeli soldiers call "Bedouinism." Dr. Amnon Shapira, a Tel Aviv physician who has served in the Sinai, describes the malaise as a pathological lethargy. "You lose all interest in everything. You don't wash, you have no energy or motivation. It's a matter of not letting the desert get the better...
...second example are the Defense Regulations of 1945. Israel has two systems of law, ordinary civil law and the Defense Regulations. The latter were called "worse than Nazi laws" by a leading Jewish lawyer in Palestine in 1946. That lawyer, Yakov Shapira, is now Minister of Justice of the State of Israel and administers exactly the same laws. The difference is that the laws are enforced against non-Jews...
...AMITZUR SHAPIRA, 40, ranked as Israel's best track and field coach. A physical education teacher, Shapira had much to look forward to on the day he was killed: his most successful protégée, Esther Shahamurov, was about to run in the semifinals of the 100-meter hurdles. Instead, she accompanied her coach's coffin home. Shapira left a wife and four children...
...SEVENTH DAY edited by Avraham Shapira. 276 pages. Scribners...