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...Hebrew phrase which is translated as "without form and void" in Genesis 1:2, is tohnvavohu. It is still highly current. Germans use it a lot these days to mean utter tarfu. In Palestine, too, it means chaos. Last week the situation in Palestine could only be described as tohuvavohu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tohuvavohu | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...neither Weizmann nor anyone else had a way to bring order out of tohuvavohu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tohuvavohu | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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