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Scientific contacts between Jew and Arab have taken place at international medical meetings. The most extraordinary medical dialogue, however, has occurred not face to face but over the air waves. For the past five years, Israeli radio has broadcast to the Arab world a program called Tabib warn al microphone (Doctor Behind the Microphone). Originated by an Iraqi-born Israeli woman named Ilana Basri and broadcast every Friday (the Moslem day of worship), it features a kind of "Dear Abby." During the 30-min. program, Israeli doctors reply directly to Arab correspondents who write in with their complaints...
...barb aimed less at the Arabs than at Israel's own polygamists. Among the legislators were three Yemenites. Only one of them, bearded sexagenerian Abraham Tabib, had ever practiced plural marriage, and one of his two wives had just died. Old Tabib did not take part in the Knesset debate, but his fellow Yemenite, Monogamist Zacharia Gluska, rose to defend the morals of the sect...
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