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...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...
...said to include several West Bank settlers and some reserve officers in the Israel Defense Forces. The police hope that the arrests may shed some light on earlier attacks on Arabs, including the June 1980 bombings that maimed two West Bank mayors. Of the foiled bus attack, Interior Minister Yosef Burg said, "Thank God, the disaster was prevented. Terror produces more terror...
...immediately named him a Minister Without Portfolio, thereby minimizing the damage to himself and to Sharon. As predicted, Begin then appointed Moshe Arens, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. for the past year, as Sharon's replacement at the Defense Ministry. The result, as Interior Minister Yosef Burg put it, was that Begin had made no concessions "to the Americans or to the Arab world" or otherwise changed his government's policies...
...Jewish population and bringing the total to more than 60,000. Israeli officials predict the number will reach 100,000 by 1987, if not sooner, and by the year 2010, they say, the West Bank will contain 1.4 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs. Says Ze'ev Ben-Yosef, spokesman for the World Zionist Organization's settlement division: "People are moving in every week, by the hundreds...