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...sirens began to wail while all Israel was observing Yom Kippur, the holiest and also the quietest day of the Jewish year. By tradition, tens of thousands of servicemen were home on leave; Israeli Broadcasting had shut down for the day. As crowds of worshipers emerged from synagogues at the end of the five-hour-long morning services of atonement, they found the streets filled with speeding trucks, buses and Jeeps. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called...
...Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish holy day, when Connecticut State Representative Joan Kemler, stirred by the smell of smoke, crept downstairs. Flames were shooting through the living-room wall of her West Hartford home. She quickly routed her husband. Surgeon Leonard Kemler, and their two children to safety and summoned the fire department. Police found two liter-size plastic soda bottles propped against the two-story home; they had been filled with a flammable liquid, possibly gasoline. "It definitely was a case of arson," said Police Chief Francis Reynolds...
Congressional committees have voted repeatedly to increase aid to Israel. After the 1973 Yom Kippur war, for example. Congress almost doubled the amount of assistance the Nixon administration had requested. In the aftermath of Lebanon, political experts predicted the Begia government would have trouble getting U.S. funds because of increased resistance from Congress. Ironically, though, the White House is proving the stumbling block...
...FIRST HALTING STEPS in Cowan's return to religious observance--such as his first attempt to fast on Yom Kippur, when it turned out he had chosen the wrong day--culminated in a level of faith and commitment previously undreamed of His wife, a New England Protestant, converted to Judaism in 1980 and became their synagogue's program director, and the book ends with his oldest daughter's Bat Mitzvah...
Meanwhile, outraged public calls for a full-scale inquiry continued to mount. Some 400,000 protesters, roughly one-tenth of the country's population, jammed into Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square the day before the Yom Kippur holiday. Demands for the resignation of Begin and Sharon flooded in from newspaper editorialists, workers, housewives and even senior army officers...