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JUDEA ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE Vol.3, No.5 Tishrei-Heshvan 5756/Sep-Oct 1995
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Contents:
* The Aftermath of Oslo II:
- Half of Judea Given Away
- Navagating Through the Maze
- Returning to Givat HaDagan
- This is Our Land - Zo Artzeinu
- 56% Percent of Palestinians Say Israel Has No Right to Exist
- Jewish Holy Places in Judea
- You Don't Abandon Your Mother
- In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
- The Price of Civil Disobedience
* Jewish History Downgraded in Israeli High Schools
* Human Rights Champion Natan Sharansky on Hebron
* Tel Rumeida in Hebron
* Mike Hartman - Israel's Top Marksman
* R&D in Judea
* Returning Occupied Territory
* Jews and Computers
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The Aftermath of Oslo II
HALF OF JUDEA GIVEN AWAY
Only 28 years after the miraculous restoration to the Jewish people
of the heart of the Jewish homeland, the Oslo II agreement gives away
half of the inhabitable part of Judea to Arab control (the eastern third
of Judea is the Judean Desert). The territory being given up includes
huge tracts of currently unpopulated land, as well as Arab-populated
areas, all of which is being turned over to Arab control, to be lost to
the Jewish people for the forseeable future.
Will we be able to save the other half of Judea for future
generations of Jews? Or will tens of thousands of Jewish pioneers in the
restored Jewish communities of Judea be deported, "transferred," and
their villages destroyed, "ethnically-cleansed," as the Arabs demand and
their Jewish accomplices favor?
In Tekoa we took an empty hilltop on the edge of the Judean Desert,
turned it green, and made a warm and thriving home for 200 families
including 700 children, most of whom were born here and know no other
home. No Arabs were displaced by what we have done here, and in fact
many found employment in helping us construct the homes we built here.
What other community anywhere in the world today faces such an
immediate threat to its continued existence (except for our brethren
living in Samaria, the Gaza district, and the Golan Heights)? What has
happened to the Jewish people, in Israel and abroad, that lets them
acquiesce to the destruction of a Jewish community anywhere, and
especially to one located in the only place on this earth that carries
the name: Judea? It is because we come from right here that we are
called Jews. -- M.A.
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NAVIGATING THROUGH THE MAZE
The maps of Israel's next stage of retreat from Judea and Samaria
have finally been published. The Arab cities of Jenin, Kalkilya,
Tulkarm, Nablus (Shechem), Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron, and their
suburbs, are colored in brown and designated as "Area A" - just like Gaza
and Jericho. In these areas the PLO terrorists have total control and
the Israel army is forbidden to enter. Large tracts of nearly empty land
with scattered Arab villages have been designated "Area B" and are
colored in yellow. Here the Israel army has overall control of security,
but the PLO will have police stations manned by veteran terrorists armed
with automatic weapons.
Tekoa is in the white area or "Area C," where the IDF has full
control and no PLO terrorist policemen are allowed. However, Tekoa is in
a very unique position. Our roads to Jerusalem and Efrat run right next
to and even right through Area B and border on Area A near Bethlehem.
The roads are considered to be in Area C, but the PLO have at least
"policing" rights on either side of the road. Despite the officially
proclaimed policy of building bypass roads where needed, it seems that
the government of Israel "overlooked" a section of our road to Jerusalem
that runs right through Area B, where we are quite likely to encounter
armed terrorists pretending to be policemen. Furthermore, in another
sixth months, more of Area B is to be made into Area A, which could mean
that the direct road we've taken to Jerusalem for the past 18 years would
de facto be closed.
Terrorists from Area A (completely controlled by the PLO) will
easily be able to cross into Area B (partially in their control), then on
into Area C to execute acts of terror, and then swiftly escape back to
Area A -- where the Israeli army has no right of pursuit. All of Area A
will become a shelter for terrorists, just as Gaza and Jericho are today.
Our security people predict relative quiet on our roads for the next
year (except for the occasional firebomb, as was thrown at a Jewish car
near Herodion on the evening of 23 Oct 95), as long as the Arabs feel
they are getting everything they want. But the minute Israel stands up
to Arab demands, all hell may break loose. As a result of Oslo II, our
lives will now depend on Arab goodwill instead of the Israel "Defense"
Forces. God help us. -- Y.A.
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RETURNING TO GIVAT HADAGAN
On 25 October 1995, a group of Efrat residents and the Women in
Green (Women for Israel's Tomorrow) returned to establish a Jewish
presence on Givat HaDagan, the northernmost neighborhood within the city
limits of Efrat, opposite Solomon's Pools. The Dagan Hill was the center
of similar actions in July and August to insure the retention of Jewish
lands in Jewish hands in the face of the Oslo agreements. The effort at
the time led to hundreds of arrests and stimulated moves to populate
unsettled state lands throughout Judea and Samaria (see JM 3.4). As the
Israel government seeks to enclose the Jewish communities of Judea behind
fences in order to strangle any possibility for expansion and growth, the
residents of Efrat and other towns are continuing the fight to assure a
future for the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. On 26 October
the group was forcibly removed from Givat HaDagan by special units of the
Israel Police. They vow to return.
An information bulletin prepared by the group answers some questions
about their return to Dagan:
_Is the Action Legal?_
The protection of a person's property rights is a basic human right.
Since Givat HaDagan is within the municipal boundaries of Efrat, actions
to strengthen our presence here are legal. The removal of Efrat
residents from the hill by force or declaring it a closed military area
is illegal.
_Why are You Fighting? Didn't the Prime Minister Promise that Efrat
Would Remain in Our Hands?_
The Prime Minister has also made promises about remaining on the
Golan, about never negotiating with the PLO, about never depending on
Arab support to govern, and about the status of Jerusalem, only to later
change his position in every case. The fact is that decisions are now
being made about control of specific areas which will prevent us from
claiming Israeli sovereignty over these lands in the future, even if the
government wanted to.
_What about Conflict with the Army?_
Heaven forbid! We will not take any physical action against any
member of the security forces (and we hope they will act the same way).
Nevertheless, we will not agree to leave voluntarily.
_How About the Timing?_
There is a certain symbolism to the fact that on the day the Army
begins to withdraw from Jenin and allows the entrance of an armed
terrorist army in the guise of the Palestinian police, we proclaim that
we will never give up what is rightfully ours.
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THIS IS OUR LAND - ZO ARTZEINU
Rabbi Benny Elon is one of the leading spokesmen for the "This is
Our Land" (Zo Artzeinu) movement. A resident of Beit El, he is the
brother of Motti Alon (see JM 2.6) and son of former Supreme Court
Justice Menachem Elon.
"Of all people, I, the son of an Israeli judge, understand about law
and democracy, but democracy in Israel must rest on a Jewish majority.
If the government ruled according to the wishes of a Jewish majority, I
wouldn't feel compelled to act against it, but this government remains in
power only through the support of the Arabs."
"Every person has moral boundaries," says Elon. "According to these
boundaries, it is forbidden to hurt an innocent Arab or steal from him.
To kill innocent people is an inexcusable crime."
"After the IDf withdraws, there will be two armed ethnic groups on
the same piece of land. I have strong fears that it will become a second
Bosnia. The soldiers of the PLA - the Army for the Liberation of
Palestine - are enemy soldiers. The PLA say they want to destroy us and
make Jerusalem their capital, so we have to relate to them as the enemy."
(From Yosi Walter, _Maariv_ Sukkot, 8 Oct 95)
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56% OF PALESTINIANS SAY ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST
The Institute for Palestinian Research in East Jerusalem recently
polled Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza. Two years after the
Oslo "peace" agreement, some 56% of the Arab respondents agreed with the
statement that "Israel has no right to exist," while only 26% disagreed
(_Maariv_, 15 Oct 95, p. 4). How much longer are Israel's leaders going
to pretend that the Arabs have changed their views about Israel?
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JEWISH HOLY PLACES IN JUDEA
All Jews should have free access to Jewish holy places and historic
sites in Judea as an elemental human right. To protect those rights
during the current negotiations, Rabbi Menachem Fruman of Tekoa, together
with veterans of the Kfar Etzion Field School, prepared and submitted to
the Israeli government a list of such sites in Judea that possess a clear
historic Jewish identity proven by archeological findings. To give up
Jewish control of these sites to the Arabs could lead to the erasure of
our past, our roots, and the proof of our claims to this land.
Major Jewish Sites:
* Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron
* Ancient synagogue in Susiya
* Herodion - Fortress-palace and lower city (near Tekoa and El David)
* Rachel's Tomb in Bethlemen
* The Oaks of Mamre in Hebron
Ancient Jewish Sites:
* Ancient Synagogue in Maon
* Ancient Synagogue in Eshtamoa
* Tel Betar - Jewish stronghold during the Bar Kochba Revolt
* Solomon's Pools - Water reservoir for Jerusalem from Second Temple
period, near Efrat
* Tel Tekoa - Tomb of Amos the Prophet
* El-Kat - Jewish fortress near Carmei Tsur
* Kalkiya Palace - Hirbit Murak
* The Hasmonean city of Beit Tsur
* Tel Dvir, Opposite Otniel
* Tel Zif
* Tel Kaila
* The Hasmonean fortress of Beit Betsi
* Sela Cave - Used in Bar Kochba's day
Additional Jewish Sites in the Etzion Bloc:
* Hirbet Hilal - Ritual bath and winepress near Bat Ayin
* Mitzpe Oz - Believed to be the ancient town of Migdal Eder, near Migdal
Oz
* Arviya Caves - Used in Bar Kochba's day, near El Arub
* Hirbet Brachot - From Second Temple times, near Migdal Oz
* Second Temple ritual bath, hill north of Alon Shvut
* Hirbet Abu Tween - Fortress from the time of the Kings of Judah, north
of Bat Ayin
Additional Sites on National Religious Party List:
* Ancient Synagogue in Yatir in the South Hebron Hills
* Ancient Synagogue in Anim in the South Hebron Hills
* Tombs of Jesse and Ruth in Hebron
* Ancient Jewish cemetery in Hebron
* Tomb of Nathan the Prophet in Halhoul
* Ancient Synagogue in Jericho
* Hasmonean palace near Jericho
* Ancient Synagogue in Naaran
(From _Gushpanka_, Etzion Bloc, Sept 95)
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YOU DON'T ABANDON YOUR MOTHER
With the city of Bethlehem about to be turned over to PLO hands, the
Tomb of Rachel (Kever Rachel) will once again be left bereft of her
children. A Kever Rachel surrounded by hostile Arabs can only mean the
end of a Jewish presence in Bethlehem (birthplace of King David) and
limited access, at best, to the tomb of our matriarch.
During the past 2500 years, the only time in Jewish history that the
Tomb of Rachel was isolated from her children was during the years of
Jordanian occupation from 1948-1967. Even during Roman rule of Israel,
when Jews were not allowed near Jerusalem, and during the hundreds of
years that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was forbidden to Jewish
worshippers, the Tomb of Rachel remained accessible to the people of
Israel. It remained a symbol throughout our history as the one place our
people could always go to pour out their hearts in prayer.
Indeed, Rachel has been seen throughout the generations as the
classic sympathetic Jewish mother. Rachel, the beautiful daughter of
Lavan, whose selflessness and goodness led her to give her betrothed to
her sister for a husband; Rachel, the favored and beloved wife of Jacob;
Rachel, the barren woman whose heartwrenching pleas led to the birth of
Joseph and Benjamin; Rachel, who died in childbirth, and who was buried
"along the way" so that she could comfort her children going into exile.
Rachel, the poetic, metaphoric figure who wept for her children and
would not be comforted until the words of Jeremiah, "Thus says the Lord,
'Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work
shall be rewarded...and they shall return from the land of the enemy.
There is hope for the future,' says the Lord, 'and the children will
return to their borders.'"
Till this day, women from throughout the world come to pray at
Rachel's grave. They pray for health, for birth, for happiness, for
spiritual repair. They see in Rachel the mother of all Israel, a source
of comfort and hope, a source of mercy, a loving soul to whom they can
pour out their hearts.
It is a tradition to wrap a red string around the tomb seven times
and recite Psalm 33. The red string symbolizes the seven times a bride
walks around the groom under the wedding canopy, because Rachel loved
her sister Leah enough to give her as a wife to her betrothed, Jacob.
The same string, or a piece of it, is then wrapped around the bed of a
sick person for a speedy recovery, the crib of a newborn, or around the
wrist of anyone who feels in need of protection or help. Some people
take from the earth around the Tomb of Rachel to place in coffins of Jews
buried outside the Land of Israel.
Israeli soldiers interviewed after the Six-Day War said the
liberation of Rachel's Tomb encouraged them to advance to the resting
place of their other ancestors in Hebron, which was liberated without
firing a single shot. We must not now turn our backs on Mother Rachel.
To prevent the isolation of Rachel's Tomb from the Jewish People, Knesset
Member Hanan Porat and the Efrat community's Shomrei Efrat organization
have established a Torah study center (Kollel) at the site, where
learning will take place on a daily basis in order to maintain a constant
Jewish presence in Bethlehem.
Yeshivat Nechamat Rachel was founded on 6 June 1995, the 8th of
Sivan, with hundreds of students attending an all-day seminar. The
continuing students are post-army graduates of the IDF's Hesder Yeshiva
program.
We look to our brothers and sisters throughout the world for help to
keep Yeshivat Nechamat Rachel functioning, and Kever Rachel always
accessible to the Jewish people. Support may be expressed through tax
deductible donations to the Central Fund of Israel, 1460 Broadway, Sixth
Floor, New York, NY 10036-7385, and earmarked for "Kever Rachel." For
information or to help in other ways, contact: Kever Rachel Committee, PO
Box 1029, Efrat, Israel; fax. 972-2-9931238. (From Sharon Katz, Shomrei
Efrat)
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IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME
Steve Leibowitz
Rabbi Dr. Natan Ophir has spent the last 14 years running programs
designed to bridge the gap between religious and non-religious, left and
right college students in his position at the Dean's Office Unit for
Religion and Tradition. One of those closest to him is left-wing Hebrew
University Professor Avi Ravitsky. Meretz Knesset Member Naomi Chazan
describes Ophir as a "moderate man of fine character who is not involved
in any political activities."
For these and other reaasons, it was inconceivable to all who know
Rabbi Ophir that he was arrested on 10 October 1995 at The Event (a
Succot fair for Israel's English-speaking community), held at Netanya's
Wingate Institute, on charges of "trying to attack Prime Minister Rabin,
assaulting a police officer, and causing a riot." This week, Ophir
pleaded innocent to all charges in Netanya's Magistrate's Court.
"This is unbelievable. Of course I am innocent," says Ophir. An
anassuming and modest man, Ophir categorically claims he never intended
to approach Rabin and "was apparently singled out by the police because I
wear a yarmulke and have a long beard. I was just in the wrong place at
the wrong time." Indeed, all the facts and eyewitness acounts seem to
back Ophir's story.
Ophir says he spent part of his day at Wingate attending the roller-
blading competition, in which his 13-year-old son Menahem finished in 7th
place. A few minutes after the competition ended, the rabbi heard a
public address announcement that the prime minister was due to arrive.
"I had no idea Rabin was invited," claims Ophir. "I joined a group
of five or six people heading toward the area where Rabin was due to
speak. I expressed the view that it seemed strange to me that the prime
minister would appear at a sporting event, but I never had any intention
of trying to prevent him from speaking. I am a great believer in
tolerance and non-violence."
"I stood on the side with my nine-year-old son, David, and when we
herd the tumult, we began walking forward to see what was happening.
There was pushing and shoving and suddenly I found myself about four
meters away from the prime minister. Next thing I knew I was smacked
sharply in the face and then tackled by Rabin's bodyguards," he says.
As Rabin was hustled away, Ophir claims a second bodyguard pounced
on him and beat him repeatedly. Several officers then dragged the rabbi
off to a nearby paddywagon. Ophir was thrown into the Netanya jail for
40 hours. He says, "They did all sorts of things to prevent me from
sleeping. I never quite understood why I had been arrested." During his
arrest and incarceration, a prison doctor's report cites eight injuries
police causes him including a badly sprained wrist and several bruises.
Ophir's trial is set to begin on December 24th.
Ophir says he has nothing against Prime Minister Rabin and they
shook hands at the last Zionist Congress. "I personally respect Mr.
Rabin as a general, defense minister and prime minister. If my situation
was misconstrued by some of the people who surrounded Rabin, I apologize
to the prime minister."
Ophir, 42, is a Philadelphia native who made aliya in 1974. He is a
reservist in the IDF, has five children, and lives in Ma'ale Adumim. He
says he is not a member of any political party and does not take part in
political demonstrations. (_In Jerusalem_, 27 Oct 95)
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A Police Riot
THE PRICE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE?
On 13 September 1995 in Jerusalem, on the second anniversary of the
Oslo "peace" agreement, Jewish police beat Jewish demonstrators standing
on public sidewalks with their hands up. The conduct of the police was
grotesque and inexcusable. If I was suspected of demonstrating without a
permit, I should have been arrested, not have three ribs broken. -- M.A.
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JEWISH HISTORY DOWNGRADED IN ISRAELI HIGH SCHOOLS
The Ministry of Education has decided to stop teaching Jewish
History as a separate subject and to incorporate it as part of general
history studies. In the new program, which was approved by the Pedagogic
Secretariat, Jewish issues appear as secondary items in sections covering
global events. For example, Holocaust studies will be made Item 3 in the
section on World War II, and the creation of the State of Israel will
become Item 4 in the section on the Cold War period. The new program was
developed by a committee headed by Prof. Moshe Zimmerman of the
Department of History at the Hebrew University, who recently created a
major public uproar by equating the children of the Jewish settlers in
Hebron with the Hitler Youth and the Bible as being worse than Mein
Kampf. (_Kol Ha'Ir, 13 Oct 95, p. 27)
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HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION NATAN SHARANSKY ON HEBRON
"I support the existence of Jewish settlement in Hebron and in all
the territories. I don't understand, if we're against transferring
Arabs, why should we be for transferring Jews. I don't need to explain
the importance of Hebron in Jewish history. If the Arabs aren't willing
to recognize the right of the Jews to live next to the Cave of the
Patriarchs, the tombs of the fathers of our people, then I don't believe
in peace with them. Israel is a small Jewish presence in an Arab sea.
Hebron is a microcosm, a small Jewish settlement in an Arab sea."
(_Maariv_ Sukkot, 8 Oct 95)
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TEL RUMEIDA IN HEBRON
Tel Rumeida is the site of the biblical city of Hebron, founded
almost 4 millennia ago. Artifacts discovered at the site attest to
ancient city walls. At the foot of the tel (which means hill in Hebrew,
as in "Tel Aviv") is an ancient spring known as Sarah's Well. At the top
of the tel are the tombs of Yishai (Jesse), King David's father, as well
as Ruth the Moabite. The land on which the tel is located was purchased
by the Jewish community in the nineteenth century, but most of it was
seized by the Arabs. Several Jewish families have lived at Tel Rumeida
since 1984, although the Israeli government has forbidden further
development and construction.
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MIKE HARTMAN - ISRAEL'S TOP MARKSMAN
Sue Fishkoff
Mike Hartman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Beverly
Hills. At 18 he moved to Israel and for the past six years has been
Israel's national shooting champion. Now 27 and a lieutenant in the IDF,
he heads the army's marksmanship unit and trains the shooting
instructors.
"I love the army and I love my work," he says. "I wake up every
morning with a smile on my face. They think I'm a little crazy, but I
couldn't be happier."
Hartman joined the IDF through hesder, a program for yeshiva
students who also do army service. He spoke virtually no Hebrew when he
had his first meeting with his commanding officer, who was skeptical when
this brash California kid said he wanted to be an IDF sniper. "The guy
didn't know what to do with me, but they tested me and saw I was good,"
Hartmen says. He had been practicing with a BB gun in the backyard since
he was six, but until the recruitment test had never shot a real gun.
In June 1994 Hartman participated in a shooting contest in
Switzerland with soldiers from 15 countries. "The target was 10 meters
away and we had to hit it with a Crossbow dart gun. I can't stand to
watch people shoot wrong, so I kept stepping in and helping the others
aim. The other Israelis were throwing things at me! I was last up and
was really nervous. I knew that if I lost, my friends would be mad at me
for helping the other guys." Hartman got the only bullseye.
Hartman has already left his mark on the IDF, revamping the many
programs used to train soldiers to shoot. Next fall he'll return to
university at the IDF's expense to earn a BA in philosophy. "I love
everything to do with the mind," he says. "I meditate, for
concentration. I think that's why I'm the best shot in the army - I know
how to concentrate."
"I give everything I have to the army, but the internal satisfaction
I get back is tremendous," he says. "I feel I'm giving something to this
country. I could have been a rich lawyer in Beverly Hills. Instead, I'm
doing something with my life." (From _Jerusalem Post_ Magazine, 13 Oct
95)
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R&D IN JUDEA
When thousands of Soviet Jewish scientists came to Israel in the
1990s, the Israel Ministry of Commerce and Industry established
"technology hothouses" to help turn the ideas of these scientists into
successful commercial ventures. In Judea, four local government bodies
have come together to sponsor a regional "technology hothouse" based in
Kiryat Arba.
There have been ten different projects to date, each one a separate
corporation. The products developed include real-time measuring
indstruments for engraving; a "smart" water meter; technology for high-
termperature gas plasma cutting, welding and plating; a program for the
treatment of stuttering, in cooperation with Hadassah Hospital; armored
glass; multi-media language learning; and a computerized catalog for
mechanical parts.
(From Ruth Golan, "Mofat B'Yehuda," _Gushpanka_ #48 (May '95), p.
13)
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RETURNING OCCUPIED TERRITORY
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office, the Finance and Interior
Ministries, and the Knesset are all located on the site of the Arab
village of Sheikh Bader, abandoned by its residents during Israel's War
of Independence. Every one of the 80 kibbutzim belonging to the leftist
Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz movement was built on land formerly controlled
by Arabs. The same could be said about most of the Jewish cities and
towns in Israel. According to the logic of the Arabs and their Jewish
supporters, these are occupied lands to be returned to Arab control.
Yet this principle is always applied selectively, because even
before there were any Arab villages, this was the Land of Israel, and all
those same villages were populated by Jews. (From _Moledet_ Magazine)
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JEWS AND COMPUTERS
Yosef Lapid
The Jewish mind is suited to the computer. The percentage of Jews
involved in computer programming is phenomenal. The communications
revolution is in many ways a Jewish superhighway. It's no coincidence
that 5,000 Israeli programmers contribute seriously to the computer
industry in Silicon Valley in California. It's no coincidence that there
are personal computers in 672,000 homes in Israel -- 48% of all
households -- the highest percentage of PC ownership of any country in
the world. (_Maariv_, Pesach, 14 Apr 95)
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