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...fame. Missing Kissinger, his breakthrough book, came out in 1994 (published in the U.K. and the U.S. this March, most of the stories here appear for the first time in English). It was chosen as one of the 50 most important works in Hebrew by the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, and is on the Israeli high school syllabus. Keret now pens caustic satirical sketches for Israeli TV, has published a series of comic books and won Israel's equivalent of a Best Picture Oscar for Skin Deep, a movie he co-directed. He also dabbles in punditry: last summer...
...brawl with Hizballah. All that has sent Olmert's political stock plummeting. At the start of the Lebanon campaign, he was seen as tough and decisive, a lanky Churchill puffing a cigar. Today 63% of Israelis want Olmert to resign, according to a poll reported last week in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper...
...Peretz has matched tough rhetoric - "We expected Hizballah to break the rules, and now we intend to break them," he told reporters last week - with a willingness to fire back at critics. "Hizballah's growing strength did not begin when Amir Peretz showed up," he told Israel's Yedioth Aronoth newspaper. "This happened when all those now giving advice were in charge...
...Yair Lapid, a columnist from the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, sums up the elections: "The people do not want to continue to hold on to the [occupied] territories, it supports the next disengagement, and it isn?t willing to see its grandfather starve to death...
...coma after a massive stroke last January - has tapped into a new pragmatism among Israeli voters. Co-existing with the Palestinians, especially with a government next door now run by Hamas, now seems an impossibility to most of them. A vote for Kadima, says columnist Sima Kadmon of Yedioth Ahronoth, is nothing less than the "victory of the desire of most of the public to rid themselves of the Palestinians... It is the expression of the desire to see a border with a Jewish state on one side and a Palestinian state on the other...