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...moment last week Golda Meir was no longer the drill-sergeant Premier of Israel but simply a woman bereaved. Accompanied by President Zalman Shazar, Mrs. Meir attended funeral services in Jerusalem for 20 Jews who were among the 47 people killed on Feb. 21 when a sabotaged Swissair jet exploded and crashed while flying from Zurich to Tel Aviv. As she spoke of Israel's doleful familiarity with "the phenomenon of the common grave," Mrs. Meir buried her face in her hands and wept. Then she dried her tears and in a firm voice urged: "Let us turn...
...colonel, Zalman Shalev, a former head of military communications, founded an electronics company that recorded $1,500,000 in sales last year. Another ex-colonel, Arieh Shachar, took over the money-losing government trucking company called Mifalei Tovala, promising to turn a profit within a year or close down the company. He replaced its ancient fleet of trucks and fired 70% of the headquarters staff, starting at the top "to show the workers that the reforms were just." Shachar also negotiated a new labor contract that increased the drivers' work hours by 15%, with no raise...
Israel's mood may well be indicated by what it does about the condemned Asifa prisoner Hejazi. Under the law, an appeal for clemency to President Zalman Shazar is mandatory. Nine years ago, three Arab saboteurs were sentenced to death, but the penalty was commuted to life imprisonment. In fact, the only man ever hanged in Israel was Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann. Last week Israel's dilemma was whether or not to make Mahmud Hejazi the second...
Joyous Mysticism. The Lubavitcher movement, deriving its name from a small town in northern Russia, was founded by Shneur Zalman (1747-1812), a brilliant young Talmudist in White Russia who became a disciple of Hasidism. This was a movement of holy men (zaddiks) and their followers who reacted against the arid, hairsplitting Talmud-boring of 17th century Judaism with a kind of joyous mysticism; they have often been compared to the followers of St. Francis of Assisi. Shneur Zalman burned with Hasidism's hitlahavut (spiritual enthusiasm), but he recognized the need for organization and teaching as well...
...Bible classes, founded a publishing house to turn out textbooks in English and Hebrew, dispatched missionaries all over the world. After his death in 1949, he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Menachem Mendel, who, like all Rebbes, added Schneerson to his name in honor of Founder Shneur Zalman...