Word: yosef
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...Israeli embassy in Washington, seeking political asylum. The embassy turned them away, and Pollard was promptly arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on charges of espionage. Several days after his arrest, two Israeli diplomats were recalled to Jerusalem: Yosef Yagur, the science attache at the New York consulate, and Ilan Ravid, deputy science attache in the Washington embassy. Simultaneously, the Israeli press reported that the Peres investigation had found that Pollard's secret supervisor was a top intelligence official, Rafi Eitan, who was running his own spying operation in ) Washington unbeknown...
...Yosef Yankelev: violin, Edward Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Friday...
Whatever the cause, the cost for countries that lose minds and hearts to the U.S. can be high. The presence of 8,000 Israeli engineers in the U.S. has, according to Yosef Kucik, emigration adviser to the Israeli government, "created a severe bottleneck in the development of sophisticated industry in Israel." Around half of the 1,000 students who graduate each year from the 27 medical schools in the Philippines go abroad, leaving one doctor tending to as many as 20,000 people in some of the archipelago's rural areas...
...another cave 40 miles to the north, Bedouin shepherds have scoured through Nahal Hemar vainly seeking similar treasures. Had the Bedouins probed deeper into the cave floor, their search might have been rewarded. In 1983 Archaeologists David Alon of the Israeli Department of Antiquities and Museums and Ofer Bar-Yosef of Hebrew University, digging 3 ft. down, unearthed a cache of spectacular Neolithic (late Stone Age) artifacts about 9,000 years...
...Sabbath and dietary laws, and are circumcised. The Talmud, Jewish law and its interpretation, seems never to have reached them, however, because of their geographic isolation. The issue of whether the Ethiopians are even Jews was not settled in Israel until 1972. That was when Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef decreed that the Falashas are "undoubtedly of the tribe of Dan," the inhabitants of the biblical land of Havileh in what is today the southern Arabian Peninsula. A government committee later decided that the Ethiopians are covered by Israel's Law of Return, which permits all Jews to become citizens...