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…f the sayeret to twenty. We were almost all teenagers. In fact, the oldest of our officers was 21. Most of the men were Sephardi Jews. For a unit like ours, with the aim of undertaking secret missions in Arab countries, Avraham believed that a background in Arabic culture and lan...

the leader of the Sephardi Orthodox party Shas; and two

I decided to go with the Sephardi Orthodox party. I

worked out a new deal with Shas. The Sephardi Orthodox party was

…ipation of the negotiations needed to put together a coalition: Rak lo Shas! Anyone but Shas! It was a reference to the Sephardi Orthodox party, which in addition to being more nuanced and flexible than other religious parties on the issue of peace talks, had been the big winner...

June 2017 Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians by Arch Puddington CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction: Modern Authoritarians: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook 5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Hom...

…for Prime Minister. Now, he endorsed Yitzhik Mordechai instead: a man not only with strong military credentials, but of Sephardi background and religiously observant, and a proven politician and cabinet minister. It was clear that he would be going after many of the same votes I...

…ox leaders who did not reject the very idea of peace negotiations — whether in the NRP, or the increasingly influential Sephardi religious party, Shas — I was outside Labor’s mainstream, and its comfort zone. On my approach to peace as well, I differed from many on the left. Tho...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 in the morning, such as the creation story, and what we were taught in the afternoon, such as evolution and genetics. No attempt was made to reconcile Torah (scripture) and Madah (secular knowledge). They were simply distinct and entirely separate world views (...

though most of the Sephardi recruits already

or the increasingly influential Sephardi

or the increasingly influential Sephardi

…uld seize the opportunity to bring together all those Israelis — on left and right, secular and Orthodox, Ashkenazi and Sephardi — who were prepared to stand up against the fanaticism, the violent messianism, of which Yigal Amir was just a part. That was the main reason I wanted...

…having Sharon in the government, the Oslo-era doves in Labor, led by Yossi Beilin, worked out a new deal with Shas. The Sephardi Orthodox party was still not prepared to rejoin the cabinet, but it did promise a “safety net” in the Knesset to ensure we would not have to worry abou...

… that I was reaching out beyond my core party constituency: to “soft” right-wingers nearer the political center; to the Sephardim who since 1977 had overwhelmingly voted Likud; to the growing number of Russian immigrants who had helped Bibi defeat Peres; and to those among the Or...