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Word: yossi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...territory, which they regard as an organic part of biblical Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). At the same time, however, tens of thousands of "Peace Now" demonstrators crowded downtown Tel Aviv protesting Begin's intransigence on the occupied territories. Said one of the movement's founders, Yossi Ben-Artzi: "This is a historic chance to achieve peace; it comes perhaps once in a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Sealed-Lips Summit | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...setting is a Montreal ghetto, around 1925. The protagonist is an extraordinarily appealing little boy named David (Jeffrey Lynas). Struggling for possession of his young mind are his father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Walton's Ghetto | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...Yossi Sarid, at 35, is one of the younger members of Mapai, and does not always agree with the party leadership. He moved last year from Tel Aviv to the northern development town of Kiryat Shmons where Arab terrorists had killed 28 men, women and children earlier in the year...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Israel's Politics of War and Peace | 2/14/1975 | See Source »

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