Word: tohuvavohu
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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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...
...neither Weizmann nor anyone else had a way to bring order out of tohuvavohu...
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