In A Moment
IN A MOMENT Is a Palestinian state on the West Bank a viable option for Israel? Can it succeed? What are the risks? In "A Palestinian State: Thinking the Unthinkable" (p. 40), two Israeli policy...
...In "The Boats of October— How a Missile Battle with Syria Changed Naval Warfare," (p...
...Elazar is the Senator N. M. Paterson Professor of Intergovernmental Relations and head of the Institute of Local Government at Bar-Ilan University...
...30), MOMENT editor Hershel Shanks asks whether Abraham knew, as his contemporaries did not, of the multitude of stars in the heavens...
...An emigrant to Israel from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Elazar teaches political science and is director of the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University...
...The Dreskins are freelance writers living in San Francisco...
...Seymour Martin Lipset examines the roots of political disunity among Jews in this month's On My Mind...
...Rabinovich is a senior feature writer for the Jerusalem Post and a foreign correspondent...
...Daniel J. Elazar, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, counters with the prediction that the Palestinians would become more fanatic if they had an independent state, and would have a greater ability to terrorize Israeli society...
...Klausner is professor of sociology and an associate of the Energy and Middle East Centers at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Klausner, who speaks seven languages,' including Hebrew, Dutch, Arabic and Aramaic, served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1945...
...Heller is the author of several books, including A Palestinian State: The Implications for Israel (Harvard Univ...
...See "Anti-Semitism in the Executive Suite— Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (p...
...Mark A. Heller, senior research associate at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, argues that a Palestinian state would be a workable option...
...He is also a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences...
...See "Our Struggle with.IBD" (p...
...The Dreskins know about IBD first hand...
...Anti-Semitism is no longer an obstacle to rising Jewish executives, says sociologist Samuel Z. Klausner...
...it took two years to obtain a proper diagnosis and treatment for their daugh2 MOMENT* SEPTEMBER 1988 ter, not unusual for families grappling with this complex disease...
...They have co-authored a book, The Day Care Decision: What's Best for Tou and Tour Child (M...
...40), two Israeli policy planners intimately involved in their country's political scene debate the issue...
...Rabinovich currently resides in Jerusalem with his two daughters...
...Astronomers say that at best we can see 4,000 stars with the naked eye...
...In writing his most recent book, The Boats of Cherbourg (Henry Holt, 1988), the Israeli navy and Israel's military industries provided him access to highly classified information...
...What did Abraham think when God promised to make his descendants as numerous as the stars...
...population, explain William and Wendy Dreskin...
...widespread assumptions of the risks involved in dealing with the PLO come from stagnant political beliefs held by the two prominent political parties in Israel and not from realistic assessments...
...Inflammatory bowel disease affects Jews in the United States four times as often as it does the rest of the U.S...
...He has taught international relations and Middle Eastern politics at several American universities, joining the Jaffee Center in 1979...
...Distressed and embarrassed by their defeat—47 killed and more than 100 wounded—Israeli engineers set out to change the odds held by their Arab adversaries...
...His recent MOMENT article, "How to Achieve Electoral Reform for Israel," appeared in June 1988...
...Klausner examines hiring practices in the corporate world and finds that today, Jewish MBAs rise more rapidly than their non-Jewish classmates and earn higher salaries...
...Lipset, co-editor of the journal Public Opinion, is the Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, professor of sociology and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University...
...16), Abraham Rabi-novich details the events that led to the building of new Israeli missile boats that, six years later, defended Israel in the Yom Kippur War, and opened a new era in naval weaponry...
...their articles have appeared in many publications, including Glamour, American Baby, Travel and Leisure and Sierra Magazine...
...In "Was Abraham an Astronomer...
...in 1948 he volunteered for duty in the Israel Air Force...
...Born in New York City, Rabinovich first went to Israel five days before the start of the 1967 Six-Day War to cover events for a New York newspaper...
...Press, 1983), The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for Third Parties (JCSS and Harvard Center for International Affairs, 1984) and The Soviet-American Competition in the Middle East (Lexington, 1988...
...His published works deal with a wide range of issues, including the significance of personality and status in Israel, the nationalization of the social sciences, and drama as social research...
...Evans, 1983) and have been guests on radio and television talk shows in the United States and Canada...
...Klausner has conducted numerous studies for the Center for Research on the Acts of Man and for the American Jewish Committee, including the recent survey on which his article is based...
...He stayed in Israel to write The Battle for Jerusalem (Jewish Publication Society, 1972) and eventually made aliyah...
...In October 1967, Egypt sank Israel's only destroyer by using sea-to-sea missiles for the first time in naval history...
Vol. 13 • September 1988 • No. 6
