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...pious legend? Not necessarily, says Israeli Botanist Yehuda Feliks. Writing in a monumental new set of reference books called the Encyclopedia Judaica, Feliks identifies Jacob's secret as a keen perception of the laws of heredity. (The peeled branches were just window dressing.) Jacob apparently knew from a dream that the hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred...
...Rome last week when an explosion rocked the plane and flames came shooting up through the floor. "We are going to die!" someone screamed. "We will fall into the sea!" shouted another passenger. The blast had knocked a hole in the fuselage and the plane lost altitude, but Captain Yehuda Fuks managed to head the Boeing 707 back to Rome. Automatic sprinkler equipment doused the fire, and a few minutes later the plane landed safely with its 140 passengers...
...extremists are likely to lose rather than gain ground in Israel's religious life. Rabbi Shlomo Goren, 53, an Orthodox Halakhic scholar who is Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, is an odds-on favorite to succeed Issar Yehuda Unterman, 86, as the country's powerful Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, perhaps some time this year. He is carefully attuned to Jewish law, but at the same time practical, eager to solve such modern problems as how to maintain a Sabbath police force without violating the strictures of Halakhah. Meantime, other branches of religious Judaism are gaining a foothold there. An increasing...
...Died. Yehuda Leib Levin, 77, chief rabbi of Moscow's Central Synagogue since 1957 and unofficial spokesman for 3,000,000 Soviet Jews; of pneumonia; in Moscow. The white-bearded patriarch admitted that Jews in the Soviet Union suffer from the restrictions of "an atheistic culture." Like many religious leaders in Communist countries, however, he found it necessary to conciliate the regime. He took an anti-Zionist line and observed, accurately enough, during a U.S. visit in 1968: "There have been no pogroms...
...achievement is all the more notable because an arkful of poets and novelists-Amos Oz, Avraham B. Yehoshua, Yehuda Amichai, among others-have been there first with the agonies of self-examination. Despite them, The Israelis deserves Elon's own description: "The first critical analysis of Israel written from within." Together with The Seventh Day, an edited tape of young soldiers from a kibbutz discussing the Six-Day War, Elon's essay sardonically welcomes Israel into a new era-the era of public self-doubt...