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...merest suggestion that the Elaites might have been the ancestors of today's Israelis fell into Middle East politics like a missile. Israeli archaeologists shuddered. The Syrians detected Zionist designs in the notion and persuaded Matthiae and Pettinato to warn other scholars publicly against making ethnic linkages between the 3rd millennium B.C. and the 20th century...
...Sharon stunned many Israelis. He was, after all, a tireless, ofttimes abrasive advocate of Jewish settlement in Arab territory and a ruthless fighter against terrorism in the Gaza Strip between 1970 and 1972. Born in what was then the British mandate of Palestine, Sharon has been a hard-line Zionist all his life. At 14, he signed on with GADNA, then an underground paramilitary youth organization defending Jewish settlements. During a military career that spanned nearly three decades he earned a reputation both as a swashbuckling, Patton-like commander who sometimes overstepped his orders and as a brilliant tactician...
DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie...
...intelligence agency, felt constrained to lament the "devil's dance of public statements and counterstatements." Begin incorrectly said that there was a secret chamber for making bombs beneath the reactor, falsely quoted a Baghdad newspaper to the effect that the reactor was to be used "against the Zionist enemy," and claimed that the reactor would soon become operational, a view contradicted even by some senior Israeli military officials...
...closing ceremony took place at Judaism's holiest shrine, the Wailing Wall. There, the 4,000 from abroad were joined by an equal number of Israelis. As 6,000 candles flickered-each representing a thousand Jewish victims-Prime Minister Menachem Begin made an impassioned Zionist plea to the visitors to "come and bring your children to Israel." With that, the survivors dispersed, singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah-The Hope. -By Patricia Blake, Reported by Marlin Levin/Jerusalem