Word: yisrael
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...current troubles started in the Tel Aviv slum of Kfar Shalem, when Yisrael Yehoshua, a sanitation worker who migrated from Yemen 35 years ago, added a room to the two-room house that he and 18 relatives share. City authorities said that the addition was illegal, and sent a bulldozer, accompanied by an elite police squad, to tear it down. The family pleaded with the police to wait, pointing out that Yehoshua was in the process of obtaining a temporary court injunction barring the demolition, but the authorities refused to hold off". As the bulldozer rolled forward, Yehoshua...
...single idea has dominated the thinking of Menachem Begin, it is his longstanding dream of restoring Eretz Yisrael, the biblical land that takes in not only the present-day Jewish state but also the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. In the pursuit of that dream, Begin got Israel into the most controversial war in its history and raised tensions between the U.S. and Israeli governments to a level unprecedented in more than a quarter of a century. Yet that did not diminish the stubborn Prime Minister's resolve. "No one will set for us the borders...
...world view by the Old Testament. He began calling the occupied West Bank by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria, and turned to the prophets of old to justify what he felt was Israel's historical claim to the territory. He espoused the sanctity of "Eretz Yisrael," a term meaning "land of Israel" and referring to the region that in biblical times would have encompassed present-day Israel and the West Bank...
Those who know him best do not doubt that the one ambition he would like to see accomplished before he retires from political life is to ensure that Israel never relinquishes the West Bank. Says a Begin lieutenant: "Eretz Yisrael is the thing that at this point in his life is at the core of Begin's political existence...
...while nearby Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop them. In a private meeting last week, Major General Ori Orr warned a group of settlers that their actions were "provocative" rather than "acts of self-defense." After that, the settlers did appear to be distancing themselves from the current troubles. Yisrael Harel, the general secretary of a settlers' organization, declared: "Our message to the Palestinian population is clear and simple: Don't touch us and we won't touch...