Word: yossi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newcomers who are given a lump-sum payment of $11,000 for rent and other expenses. Landlords, realizing new immigrants have the cash, double and triple prices and require a full year's payment in advance. Poor Israeli families can not compete. "The landlords prefer the Soviet immigrants," says Yossi Hurja, 27, who was forced to move when his rent was raised from $350 to $420 a month. "And we are the ones who are being hurt...
Baker's statement touched off an avalanche of perhaps 8,000 calls to the White House Wednesday night. None, however, were from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir or his aides. "You don't resolve problems by impatience and rudeness," said Yossi Olmert, director of the government press office. In the northern town of Afula, where Foreign Minister David Levy was reported in good condition after being hospitalized with chest pains, Dr. Udi Cantor asserted that no phone calls were being put through to Levy's room. "But if Baker calls," he said, "we will transfer the call." An Israeli radio...