Sentence examples for yehuda from inspiring English sources
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This time, however, "the mainstream media in Israel was very open to publishing excerpts from the report in a non-critical way, and the interviews with us weren't even hostile," says Yehuda Shaul, the organisation's founder.
Just such a conflict is raging between those old foes, Israel and Lebanon.Last year, a team of Israeli chefs concocted what they claimed was the world's biggest-ever batch of hummus, rolling out a vat weighing 400kg (882lb) in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market.
The Mahane Yehuda market teemed with lunch-time shoppers stocking up for the weekend.
In response, there has been a substantial increase in the variety and quality of foods offered.The vending at Mahane Yehuda is raucous, making a din in which Arab vendors participate.
"Iraq has gone downhill since they forced us out," sighs a professor at a gathering of academics of Iraqi origin at Or Yehuda, a Tel Aviv suburb, slipping into Arabic.
Last month a Palestinian shot and wounded a leading temple campaigner, Yehuda Glick.Mr Netanyahu has said, ever more firmly, that he will not change the status quo, a message he repeated in an Arabic-language video.
In other words, Masada was more Waco than, well, Masada.The book that Mr Ben-Yehuda subsequently wrote explains how what happened at Masada was falsified and fashioned into a powerful myth, not least by Yigal Yadin, a famous Israeli soldier-archaeologist (and, adds Mr Ben-Yehuda, "moral entrepreneur").
Among the explanations Mr Ben-Yehuda offers are a growing awareness of the true facts of Masada; discontent with a symbol bound up with suicide and failure; and a change in values.
Intent on putting his American colleague straight, Mr Ben-Yehuda repaired to his library to consult the works of Josephus, the main source on the period.
To his considerable indignation, the Israeli discovered that his American counterpart was under the impression that it was this group that had perished on the mountain overlooking the Dead Sea.Mr Ben-Yehuda was indignant because, as every Israeli schoolboy knows, the people who died on top of Masada were not the thuggish Sicarii.
He rejects international proposals for returning the area to Azerbaijan's sovereignty while giving its ethnic Armenian population autonomy.Jerusalem bombedBombs exploded in Ben-Yehuda, the main pedestrian shopping street in central Jerusalem.
