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"Rebuilding Jewish Life in Judea, Israel"
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JUDEA ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE Vol.10, No.6 Kislev/Tevet 5763/Nov-Dec 2002
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Website: http://www.womeningreen.org/judea OUR 10TH YEAR!
Contents:
* The Battle in Hebron: Eliyahu Leibman Took Command / A Field Of Life /
Surviving "War" In Hebron
* On Remote Hilltops, Israelis Broaden Settlements
* Life Isn't About Staying Alive / Book Review: If A Place Can Make You
Cry
* Overcoming Ethnic Cleansing
* "Our Aliyah Helps Defeat The Enemy"
* Why Shouldn't Israel Get Out Of Gaza?
* Different Attitudes, Different Codes
* Music Review: An Extraordinary Jewish Talent
* No Damage, No Injuries
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The Battle in Hebron:
JEWISH HEROES: ELIYAHU LEIBMAN TOOK COMMAND
Nurit Carmon
On November 15, 2002, Islamic Jihad terrorists opened fire from two
positions at IDF and Border Patrol forces in a battle lasting 3 hours,
during which 9 soldiers and 3 civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency
squad were killed.
Among the stories of extraordinary bravery in this battle was that
of Eliyahu Liebman, 32, the security officer of the Jewish community in
Hebron, whose brother, Shlomo Liebman, was murdered 4 years ago in a
security patrol jeep near Yitzhar in Samaria.
"Eliyahu endangered his own life to draw fire on himself," said the
deputy commander of the emergency squad of Kiryat Arba, Rabbi Shimon
Ben-Amram. "Liebman was the real commander in the field," announced Meir
Ben-Shitrit, a member of the emergency squad. "After he realized that
the Hebron commander was hurt and he located the alley from where the
terrorists were shooting, he planned the next steps one after another.
[An IDF investigation of the battle confirmed the fact that Liebman took
command of the battle.]
Another member of the squad said, "At the beginning we had no
accurate information on what was going on in the ally where the firing
was coming from, other than hearing that a soldier was wounded near the
alley. Yitzhak Buanish, head of the Kiryat Arba emergency squad, went in
and Eliyahu Liebman and I helped the wounded. When the reports stopped
coming on the military radio, Eliyahu suspected that something wasn't
right and decided to enter the alley with the bulletproof jeep. When he
arrived far down the alley, he discovered the dead and wounded, among
them the Hebron battalion commander, Dror Weinberg, and others. He was
going to get out of the vehicle and help the wounded when suddenly a
terrorist stood opposite him and sprayed the jeep at point blank range.
A second terrorist stood and fired at the other side. Eliyahu reported
that the firing didn't stop and he withdrew from the alley. At the same
time he ordered us not to allow the ambulance crews to enter, just
reinforcements of protected soldiers, in order to help the wounded and
continue the battle."
"At this point Liebman decided to go first with the jeep along the
alley and ordered the security vehicle of Kiryat Arba to follow him. The
purpose was for the two vehicles to draw fire while the covering force
identified the source of fire, fired at the terrorists, and rescued the
wounded and brought out the dead. This is what we did for four hours.
The vehicles drew the fire and we were able to bring some of the wounded
to a secure location."
"Eliyahu led the squad, and when he reached the entrance to the
alley, they opened fire on him from every direction," said Ben-Amram.
"We kept to the right side of the alley and returned fire, while they
shot and threw grenades and some of the squad were wounded. We couldn't
see the terrorists, but we brought out almost all the wounded and the
dead. After a number of attempts to kill the terrorists, that failed,
Eliyahu brought all the forces together and took charge."
"Eliyahu decided to go in again, this time without the jeep," said
Ben-Shitrit. "I will never forget this picture. Liebman stood there
without a shirt, wearing a ceramic bulletproof vest, and shouted: 'Guys,
there are more wounded and dead and we have to get all of them out at
any price. I'm going in first to draw their fire. You cover me from all
directions and get in quickly to save the wounded and kill the
terrorists.' He paused a moment and then shouted: 'Whoever is ready to
go in, raise your hand.' Only the emergency squad and 3 border policeman
raised their hands. We operated according to Eliyahu's plan and within a
few minutes brought out all the wounded and dead, before the army
arrived to take charge."
"This was a story of true bravery, of a man who at the risk of his
own life worked to save others," said Ben-Amram. Said Ben-Shitrit, "I
will never forget that last sight: Liebman emerging from the alley
carrying the body of a border patrolman."
(_Makor Rishon_, Yoman, 29 Nov 02, p. 10)
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A FIELD OF LIFE
David Wilder
We had sat down to our weekly Shabbat evening meal when, at about
seven o'clock, heavy gunfire could be heard, not too far outside of
Hebron. I ran downstairs to see what was happening and saw some of our
emergency medics flying down the road in our ambulance and other
vehicles. One of my friends, panting, managed to tell me that the
gunfire originated somewhere near Kiryat Arba and that injuries were
reported.
Later on word started filtering back. The terror attack occurred
outside Kiryat Arba, near the south gate. People had been killed. Slowly
we started hearing numbers. A total of 12 people were dead and another
fourteen wounded, some critically.
Then a little bit later, some of the Hebron emergency crew returned,
pale, tired, and very upset. Colonel Dror Weinberg, 38, commander of the
Hebron brigade, was among those killed, as well as three men from nearby
Kiryat Arba including the town's security officer, Yitzhak Buanish.
I first met Dror over 20 years ago, when he was in twelfth grade. He
then participated in initiating a new yeshiva in Ophira, better known as
Sharm el-Sheikh, on the southern tip of Israel. Dror, as commander of
the Hebron region, was totally fearless, and he dealt with the enemy in
a way in which the enemy understood with whom they were dealing.
Opposing the planned pullout from the Arafat-controlled side of Hebron,
Dror spoke with his superior officers, who agreed with him. When,
despite his misgivings, the army did evacuate 80% of the city three
weeks ago, he warned of planned terror attacks. On Friday, only hours
before being killed, while meeting with security officers in the Hebron
region, he again warned that a vacuum had been created on the other side
of Hebron, that the Islamic Jihad was planning a major terror attack in
the area, and that it would likely occur very soon. Little did he know
how fatally correct he was.
Dror Weinberg had requested, should anything happen to him, to be
buried in Kfar Saba, where he grew up. Not far from his grave lie two of
Dror's uncles who were killed days apart during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Dror's wife Hadassah is pregnant with their sixth child.
In reaction to this catastrophe, the Jewish community in Hebron
expects the government to allow a "true Zionist response." That is,
construction of a new neighborhood, leading from Hebron to Kiryat Arba,
along the same road where the attack took place. The terrorists must be
forced to understand that they will never be able to accomplish their
goal, which is the removal of Jews from Hebron, or from any other part
of Eretz Yisrael. When they try and kill us, not only will we not leave,
rather, on the contrary, we will bring in more people to live here.
We expect a continuous Israeli population from Hebron to Kiryat
Arba, with full security.
We will continue to look forward and search for ways to progress,
thereby honoring the memories of those we have lost. None of those whom
I personally knew would have wanted us to stop and give up. They gave
their lives for the privilege to live in Eretz Yisrael, for the
privilege to live in Hebron. They made a supreme sacrifice, and the best
and only way to commemorate them is to continue on the same path for
which they lived and died. We must transform the field adjacent to the
site of their murder from a field of death to a field of life.
18 November 2002
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SURVIVING "WAR" IN HEBRON
Tim Boxer
I asked David Wilder, a leader of the Jewish community in Hebron,
what he does to keep his family safe in a West Bank town that has about
500 Jews surrounded by 100,000 Arabs. "I pray," he said. I noticed he
also packs a Glock 9mm on his belt next to his tzitzit (ritual fringes).
David, who came to Hebron 15 years ago from North Bergen, N.J.,
lives with his wife and seven children in the Beit Hadassah complex. He
said Beit Hadassah was built in 1893 as a medical clinic serving Jews
and Arabs in Hebron until 1929. Today 11 families make it their home.
My wife and I visited David after a sniper in the casbah killed a
father of seven. I wanted to see how dangerous the situation was in
Hebron. The windows of David's apartment face the Arab side. "They shoot
right into our homes," he said.
I saw bullet holes in the iron shelves of his bookcase in the living
room. David took me into the children's bedroom and showed me pockmarked
walls struck by bullets. The windows are now shielded with sandbags.
(New York Jewish Week;
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=7116)
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ON REMOTE HILLTOPS, ISRAELIS BROADEN SETTLEMENTS
Molly Moore
Seven months ago, the only signs of civilization atop this desert
hillock 10 miles north of Jerusalem were a cellular telephone antenna
and a small maintenance shed. Today, a smooth asphalt ribbon winds up
the rocky hillside to one of the West Bank's newest Jewish settlements:
Migron - 33 house trailers set amid freshly planted slabs of lawn turf,
a modest synagogue, a boisterous nursery school, and a children's
playground.
In the past two years -- since the start of the Palestinian uprising
and the subsequent election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon -- at
least 66 new Jewish outposts have sprouted across the ridgelines and
hilltops. More than two-thirds were established in the past 11 months.
"The issue is whether one leaves these hills to the Arabs, or
whether Jews will live on them," said Benny Katzover, a leader of the
settlement movement, whose count of new outposts in the last year is 40
to 50.
A new generation of youthful settlers is setting down fresh
footholds on the stark, stony topography, transforming barren hilltops
into thriving communities in a matter of months. Many were raised in
more established settlements and come from religious backgrounds.
Katzover said the growth was a direct result of the uprising. "There
is a feeling of duty towards the homeland and the Jewish people that,
among the idealists, has been strengthened," he said.
Inside Migron
Last March, a group of about 10 young, single men and women moved to
the hilltop and named their new outpost Migron, claiming it as the site
of a long forgotten community mentioned in the Bible. Shira Hueller, her
husband, and their 13-month-old daughter were the first family to move
in. "Because of the events of the past two years, we felt we couldn't
wait anymore -- we had to come here," said Hueller, echoing the attitude
of many of the new settlers.
"In the beginning, it was very pioneering," said Hueller, 25, who
has since had a second child and is representative of most of the
residents here: under 30 and the products of families who lived in
established settlements.
For the first few weeks, the community was little more than a
rudimentary campground with no electricity, no running water, plenty of
mud, and a communal spirit that brought the settlers together for a
shared Sabbath dinner every Friday night. Today, 30 families live in
Migron. There's a waiting list of young couples eager to join them as
soon as more trailers can be towed up the hill.
In seven months, Migron has become more entrenched. Mothers stroll
their toddlers a few dozen feet from their front doorsteps to a small
nursery school where military camouflage netting shades the playground
from the desert sun. Husbands take turns patrolling the streets and
barbed-wire-topped perimeter fence at night, M-16s or Uzis slung over
their shoulders, pistols on their hips. Wives rotate baking the cookies
and setting out coffee in the squat, house-trailer synagogue each
evening for the Israeli soldiers who also patrol the community.
Avishai Shitrit, 25, moved here three months ago with his wife and
newborn son. "We're not trying to anger anyone," said the soft-spoken
Shitrit. "We just want to build our country."
(_Washington Post_, 8 Dec 02)
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LIFE ISN'T ABOUT STAYING ALIVE
Rabbi Daniel Gordis
"How will you feel if one of those suicide bombers kills your child
when you could have avoided it by moving back to the States? Doesn't
your family come first?"
I didn't answer that e-mail until today, because I didn't really
know where to begin. Now I can clarify why we're not killing our
children, but giving them something to live for.
On the day of the attack in Mombasa, the newscasters spoke on
cellphones to Israelis who were actually at the site. When one woman was
asked what she expected would happen next, she said, "I assume Israel
will send doctors, medicine, and soldiers, and then they'll bring us
home." And she was right. The news immediately cut to an airfield, where
five IAF planes were being loaded with the medical equipment and
personnel, and shortly thereafter, the planes and their cargoes were on
their way.
Muslim terrorism isn't about the settlements, or the "occupation,"
but about Israel itself and about Israelis and Jews wherever they may
be. (Truthfully, it's about Western Civilization, which the Jews for
some reason are seen to represent.) And when Jews end up butchered in
Mombasa, they know one thing: Israel will not allow them to be stranded.
It'll get there. And it'll bring whatever's left of them home.
Then we heard about the two shoulder-mounted missiles fired at the
Arkia jet carrying 271 passengers. As the plane prepared to land, IAF F-
16s were flanking the jet, making sure that it hadn't been damaged and
was safe to land. As the plane landed, a video caught the clapping and
spontaneous singing of "Hevenu Shalom Alechem," an old Israeli
homecoming song that no one on that plane had sung for decades.
But there was no reason to be embarrassed by the kitsch. Six decades
ago, when people fired at Jews across the world, there was no one
willing to do anything.
The F-16s outside the window showed our children that we've brought
them to the only place on the planet where Jews can take care of
themselves.
Even on dark days, when everyone is recovering from one bit of news
only to hear another, this place pulses with hope. Those doctors flying
to Mombasa and the F-16s shadowing the 757 making its way home are what
this place is all about. It's home. And with all its faults, and there
are many, it's a dream come true.
Our kids have learned that life isn't about staying alive. It's
about believing in something that matters while you're alive. Our family
does come first. And that's why we're here. To raise our kids in a place
that's all about them, about their history, their future, their sense of
being at home. To live in a place that matters very much.
Not because we're heroes, for we're not. But because we know just a
bit about Jewish history; and because we have no right to expect other
Israelis to "fight the good fight" if we're not willing to.
It's a crazy, dangerous place, this neighborhood of ours, but it's
home. And it's a miracle. It really is. And from that, you just don't
walk away.
[The author (www.danielgordis.org) is director of the Jerusalem
Fellows Program at the Mandel School for Educational and Social
Leadership.] (_Jerusalem Post_, 2 Dec 02)
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Book Review:
IF A PLACE CAN MAKE YOU CRY
Shalom Freedman
In 1998, Rabbi Daniel Gordis, dean of the University of Judaism's
Rabbinical School in Los Angeles, came to Israel with his wife and three
children for a year's sabbatical and decided to stay. His boss suggested
that his decision to stay was "irrational, except if you figure in
destiny."
"And that's the issue - destiny," Gordis writes in his new book _If
a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State_. "It's about
feeling that we belong here, fit in better here than we ever did in the
States. The States was a great place to live, and both of us love a lot
about it. But it always seemed to us that we were tolerated there -
while here, the place is made for us. It's the difference between being
a guest and being at home."
(_Jerusalem Post_, Nov 02)
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OVERCOMING ETHNIC CLEANSING
Timothy Appleby
Eve Harow, a long-time Los Angeles expatriate and her doctor
husband, who live in Efrat with their seven children and 7,500 other
settlers, don't expect to be leaving soon. "Where are we going to go?"
Ms. Harow asked. "To Tel Aviv, where that bus was bombed two days ago?
Moscow? Virginia? We're not going anywhere."
Since the 1993 Oslo accords, the settlement population in the West
Bank and Gaza has roughly doubled to more than 200,000, while the total
in east Jerusalem has gone from 140,000 to 170,000.
In Efrat, suicide bombers, including a laborer who had done
extensive work on Ms. Harow's home, have struck the community twice this
year, injuring six people. Many of her neighbors have been shot at while
making the short commute to Jerusalem.
Clustered on strategic hilltops, Efrat resembles a California
suburb, with red-tiled roofs, thick green lawns, small shopping centers,
and new schools.
"The settlements and their political supporters have over the past
decade proved themselves to be dynamic, strong, and with more compelling
ideas politically than their opponents," said Geoffrey Aronson, director
of the Washington-based Foundation for Middle East Peace.
"One reason I'm here is the community; another is ideological," said
Boaz Samuels, 35, a former Torontonian who works as a high-tech
consultant in Efrat, where secular and religious Jews live. "But
basically I believe we should be here because we've been here for
millennia and this is home."
Ms. Harow elaborated. "This is not about stealing a Palestine that
was once here because the people here were nomads," she said. "If we
weren't here it wasn't because we didn't want to be; it was because we'd
been killed and ethnically cleansed. So we don't consider ourselves
settlers but rather resettlers."
She said Palestinians, whose population is projected to triple over
the next 50 years, should move to other Arab states. "Israel took in all
the Jews that were refugees, so now the Arab states need to take in the
Arabs that have been made refugees. It's a very simple answer, but
nobody wants to hear because it makes too much sense."
(_Toronto Globe and Mail_, 29 Oct 02)
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"OUR ALIYAH HELPS DEFEAT THE ENEMY"
As of September 2002, 1,680 new immigrants arrived from North
America - compared to 1,312 during the same period in 2001. What are the
driving forces behind the decision to make aliyah at this critical
juncture? Here are the stories of three students:
Jenna Ferer, a photo, print, and radio journalist from Santa
Barbara, California, employed by The Media Line in Jerusalem:
"I came to Israel because I was frustrated with the anti-Israel
media bias at my university, especially among people who had never even
been to Israel. I also wanted to come to live in Israel during this
difficult situation to stand in solidarity with the people of Israel,
but also to refute people who make statements about Israel without ever
stepping foot on its soil. I initially came to Israel to do an
internship with an eye on aliyah. After being here only a short time I
knew I wanted to make aliyah. The biggest drive to be here is that I am
so acutely aware of my Jewish heritage, and the fact that so many people
died for Israel's existence. I believe that I owe them a debt of
gratitude and I want to ensure that the future generations of the Jewish
people have a safe haven. I am not at all afraid of being here. My
advice to Americans thinking about making aliyah is: Just do it! Every
day is an adventure; I feel incredible pride every day I am here."
Ronen Khordipour from Great Neck, NY, a student, working as an
analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
"I decided to come to Israel because I love Israel. I don't take for
granted the fact that after 2,000 years in exile the Jews finally have a
place they can call home, and I want to be part of that experience. Now
is the easiest time in my life for me to make aliyah: I have no job, no
wife, no children - no responsibilities. I am not rooted in American
society. I came specifically now because terror is a psychological war
by definition; to defeat terror you must do the opposite of what they
want in order to win. Coming to Israel helps defeat our enemies whose
actions have driven people from this land."
Sara Brown from Sharon, Massachusetts, a student, employed by the
Jewish National Fund:
"I decided to visit Israel because it was hard for me to listen to
all the media reports coming out of the region. I wanted to know if the
hype was true or if it was exaggerated. I wanted to see for myself if
Israel was as dangerous as people make it out to be. I also needed a
change in my life and now seemed as good a time as any. Deep down inside
I knew that the reason I was coming to Israel in the first place was to
make aliyah. Once I got here it just felt so natural; I felt like it was
the right decision."
(Jewish Agency for Israel;
http://www.jafi.org.il/agenda/2001/english/wk3-40/2.asp)
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WHY SHOULDN'T ISRAEL GET OUT OF GAZA?
Michael Freund
Gaza belongs to the Jewish people, and it is time we started
treating it as such. Gaza has a long and rich Jewish history stretching
back to biblical times. After the Exodus from Egypt, when the tribes of
Israel were apportioned various parts of the Promised Land, Gaza was
given to the Tribe of Judah (see Joshua 15:47 and Judges 1:18) as its
share of the eternal inheritance.
The Hasmonean king Yochanan, brother of Judah the Maccabee, retook
Gaza in 145 BCE and his brother, Shimon, sent Jews to settle there
hundreds of years before the advent of Islam. In the fourth century,
Gaza served as the primary port of commerce for the Jews of the Holy
Land.
Nearly 40 years ago, on the outskirts of Gaza City near the sea,
Egyptian archeologists discovered a mosaic floor from an ancient
synagogue dating from the sixth century. It is one of the oldest and
largest ever found in the Land of Israel.
During the Middle Ages, Gaza was home to a thriving Jewish community
which boasted its share of prominent rabbis. Centuries ago, the great
scholar Rabbi Ya'acov Emden ruled that "Gaza and its environs are
absolutely considered part of the Land of Israel....There is no doubt
that it is a mitzva to live there, as in any part of the Land of
Israel."
In August 1929, when Arab rioters threatened to slaughter Gaza
Jewry, the British army forced the community to evacuate. In October
1946, the Gaza Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom was established. It
lasted just a year and a half, until the outbreak of Israel's War of
Independence in 1948, when Egypt overran the area and occupied it.
Finally in 1967, in a war of self-defense, Israel retook Gaza, making it
possible for Jews to reside there once again.
Hence, the 7,000 Jews currently living in Gaza are neither invaders,
nor occupiers, nor intruders. They are indigenous residents who have
returned home, treading on the very same ground as their ancestors
before them.
(_Jerusalem Post_, 3 Dec 02)
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DIFFERENT ATTITUDES, DIFFERENT CODES
Khaled Abu Toameh
When the Israel police were searching for 6-year-old Nur Abu-Tir
from the Arab village of Umm Tuba earlier this month, a police officer
said he literally had to beg the editors of the east Jerusalem-based
daily al-Quds to run a story on the missing girl.
The next morning there was a brief news item in the paper, but no
picture. Nor did they send a reporter to the family's home, as most
Israeli newspapers and TV stations did.
"The Israeli media gave extensive coverage to the case of Nur while
the Palestinian newspapers were busy telling us what Arafat did," said
Zuhair Hamdan, one of the mukhtars (headmen) of the nearby village of
Sur Bahir, who narrowly survived a Bethlehem Tanzim assassination
attempt in November 2001.
Hamdan is expected to play a major role in organizing a sulha
between Nur's family and the family of the murderer after the case is
solved.
An Israeli police officer explained, "So much crime is taking place
and no one ever thinks about involving the authorities. Everything is
settled within the family and behind closed doors....These people don't
believe in the police or judicial system. They behave according to their
own codes."
"Almost every week there is a sulha in the village following a
quarrel or melee," said Ahmed Abu-Tir, a distant relative.
Sulha predates Islam. Thousands of cases, ranging from theft to
murder, have been solved through the sulha system in east Jerusalem over
the past decade.
When a serious crime has been committed, a group of elders is
quickly dispatched to the victim's family to see what its demands are in
order to prevent revenge.
(_Jerusalem Post_, 20 Dec 02, B2,
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFu
ll&cid=1040273581810)
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Recommended Links:
VISIT JERUSALEM BY INTERNET
http://www.archpark.org.il
See the Jerusalem Archaeological Park next to the Temple Mount - a
unique visual Internet Experience offered by the Israel Antiquities
Authority.
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STEVEN SPIELBERG JEWISH FILM ARCHIVE
http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il/
The first 112 films in the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive are
now available online. 100 films will be added annually until over 500
full films will be viewable over the Internet.
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A GUIDE TO BEREAVEMENT, STRESS, AND MODERN DAY TERROR
http://www.crisis.org.il/toc.htm
An on-line book for those who have experienced the nightmare of
tragedy, by Eli Birnbaum of the Jewish Agency. Chapters include: What to
Expect After a Terrorist Attack; Trauma and Our Children; Long-Term
Stress; At the Scene of an Attack; The Shiva Visit; Grieving; Signs and
Symptoms of a Stress Reaction.
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Music Review:
AN EXTRAORDINARY JEWISH TALENT
Harpo and the Neshamot have a new CD, "Next Exit," full of down-
home, electrifying, joyous music in Hebrew. With virtuoso lead guitarist
David "Harpo" Abramson (from Tekoa, Judea), and featuring the legendary
Inkblot Hurricane, "Next Exit" is a treat not to be missed.
For more about this extraordinary Jewish music talent, see "That
Homegrown Jewish Sound," Judea Magazine 9.6 -
http://www.womeningreen.org/judea/jm96.htm
To order the CD, contact harpo@netvision.net.il or phone (in Israel)
02-9960170, 058-534055.
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NO DAMAGE, NO INJURIES
I had just passed the army checkpoint and was inside "green line"
Israel, driving toward Beit Shemesh from Jerusalem after sundown, when I
suddenly noticed two people standing on the side of the road with lights
in their hands. It took another second to realize the lights were
firebombs and I was headed right past them.
From emergency driving courses taken over the years I remembered
that I was supposed to keep going and not stop, so that the fire would
blow out and away from the car. I heard two crashes as both firebombs
hit the car. I stopped 70 meters down the road, concerned for drivers
coming behind me, and saw the remains of the firebombs burning on the
road -- the throwers nowhere to be seen. I checked the car -- a bit of
finish burned off but no serious damage. I reported the event to
soldiers on the scene and drove on.
A few weeks later I heard that Israelis had been hurt by a firebomb
in the same area.
Mark Ami-El, November 4, 2002
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