Word: shin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Directed by Michael Shin...
Director Michael Shin has complemented Chin's ambitious play with a complicated set design which utilizes two formal stages as well the seating area. While Shin's staging demonstrates creative imagination, its complexity too often distracts from the action of the play itself. The program provides a long list of instructions advising the audience when to face forward and when to turn their chairs backward in order to follow scenes...
...Israel for years ranked as a world-class player. Agents of MOSSAD, the country's equivalent of the CIA, electrified the world in 1960 by capturing Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann and spiriting him out of Argentina under the noses of authorities. The intelligence network cast by MOSSAD and Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, was so exhaustive in the Middle East that Washington often relied on it for information and analysis. Even when the objectives of Israel's spooks were debatable, their methods virtually defined professionalism and supersecrecy...
Recently, however, Israel's vaunted state-security apparatus seems to have gone amuck. Shin Bet has been under a cloud for some time, but especially since last summer, when its director and three aides were forced to resign amid allegations of complicity in the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped...
Israeli leaders have shown a singular lack of enthusiasm for punishing those responsible for the security scandals. The fired Shin Bet officials were given pardons after acknowledging the allegations against them. Some critics believe the reluctance to demand accountability is part of a continuing cover- up conducted by top political leaders. As in Iranscam, the government got into trouble because it failed to establish firm oversight responsibilities. Says Communications Minister Amnon Rubinstein, a former law professor: "The problem is that the politicians do not exercise the sort of vigilance that we expect of them. What we see is a diminishing...