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...Israelis and Palestinians. Although the perpetrator has a history of mental illness, we agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's condemnation of the attack as "criminal." Furthermore, such violence is diametrically opposed to everything for which the Jewish tradition stands. In the words of Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer of the National Religious Party, "a person who thinks they have the right to kill someone in order to supposedly change history has no part in the Torah of Israel...
Earlier this year relief seemed near after Agunot protesters made their voices heard at demonstrations. In response, Zevulun Hammer, the Minister of Religious Affairs, proposed that recalcitrant husbands be threatened with suspension of such rights as cashing checks and holding a driver's license. But Hammer left office in June, and since then the small ultra-Orthodox parties whose leaders oppose change have faced little challenge from politicians on this issue...
Secondary changes in the new government also give it a slightly more hawkish tilt. The hard-line Moshe Arens took over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...
...Hebrew, figures can be expressed by letters of the alphabet. The combinations of letters that represent larger numbers may, coincidentally, spell out words. A while ago, Israeli Cultural Affairs Minister Zevulun Hammer must have flipped a few months ahead in his calendar book. To his surprise, he found that the letters of the next year on the Jewish Calendar--5744, which starts next fall--spell out in clear-as-day Hebrew "destroy...
...What shall be the deciding factor, religious law or secular law?" asked the Labor Party's Yaakov Tzur in the Knesset, raising the larger question before the Begin government. Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer, an NRP leader who is not opposed to the Old City excavation, equivocated in his reply, reflecting the government's dilemma. "We must follow the law of the state," he said, "keeping in mind the respect we must have for the halacha [religious...