Word: zacharia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Israel's own polygamists. Among the legislators were three Yemenites. Only one of them, bearded sexagenerian Abraham Tabib, had ever practiced plural marriage, and one of his two wives had just died. Old Tabib did not take part in the Knesset debate, but his fellow Yemenite, Monogamist Zacharia Gluska, rose to defend the morals of the sect...
...Water & Beatings. Erato Zacharia-des calls herself a liberal, but she prefers to forget politics and dream of earlier, happier days when she had her son Nico with her. Often her face lights up when she talks of him. "He used to break up blocks of ice in a bucket," she recalls proudly, "and use the water for showers every morning. 'I've got to be tough,' he used...