Word: yaakov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...