Two-Man War on Poverty
Hillel Goldberg
January 13, 2000
Last week, one hour and 15 minutes peeled away 12 years of presumption.
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Israel
A Gift in the Hand is Worth…
Eric Silver
January 6, 2000
peace with Syria in West Virginia this week. But the 76-year-old economic cooperation minister may have moved within striking distance of the last public position he still craves: the presidency.
The prospects of Ezer Weizman\’s completing his second term have diminished after he confirmed a report by investigative journalist Yoav Yitzhak that he received nearly half a million dollars from a French Jewish tycoon, Edouard Seroussi, while serving as a legislator and minister in the \’80s.
Political Gamesmanship
Eric Silver
December 30, 1999
As sure as death and taxes, Israelis can count on a coalition crisis every year in the last week of December. It happened three times to the Likud\’s Binyamin Netanyahu, and no one was surprised that this month it happened to his Labor successor, Ehud Barak.
It’s Always About Choice
Jewish Journal
December 30, 1999
I was all set to write an end of year/end of century column for this week\’s issue. You know, the prospects for a future that looks exciting, but also that seems new and unfamiliar and even a bit threatening to someone over 40.
Millennium Countdown Israeli Style
Helen Schary Motro
December 30, 1999
Israel has never seen anything this glitzy. True, there have been neon menorahs for Chanukah and light bulbs outlining Israel\’s numerical age on Independence Days.
Barak’s Political Life Depends on Syria Referendum
David Landau
December 23, 1999
The interviewer\’s question to Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Israeli television over the weekend was clearly one Barak would have preferred to do without.
The Settlers of Golan
Avi Machlis
December 16, 1999
Emotions ranging from hope to uncertainty to anger fill the 16,000 Golan Heights residents as their fate is again the topic of Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Negotiations resumed Wednesday in Washington, and residents here know that the price for peace with Syria is likely to be the return of all or most of the Golan, the strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Approaching The Millennium
Avi Machlis
December 16, 1999
Melodic harmonies echo through Dominus Flevit, a small-but-quaint church on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, as a group of 30 Christian Bible scholars and pastors sing \”Hallelujah to the Lord,\” first in English, then Hebrew.
Built in 1955 on the ruins of an ancient church, the teardrop-shaped structure commands a breathtaking view of the eastern walls of Jerusalem\’s Old City. According to Christian tradition, Jesus, knowing his prophetic message would be rejected, wept here as he viewed the illusion of a tranquil city that, in fact, was bitterly divided, its Jewish population suffering under a brutal Roman occupation.
Embracing Diaspora
Tom Tugend
December 2, 1999
The old-time Zionist religion had it that the only good Diaspora Jew was the one who made aliyah and settled in the ancestral land.
Poverty and Unemployment Plague Israel
Larry Derfner
December 2, 1999
The peace process isn\’t the news in Israel anymore; it\’s poverty, unemployment and hunger. The domestic agenda, the one that Prime Minister Ehud Barak focused his election campaign on, has jumped up and bitten him.
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