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Rosenberg, Avraham Reisfield and Gutnick...
...Avraham Yoffe is undaunted by the problems. He plans another preserve of biblical animals on a hilly, wooded 5,000-acre tract in Galilee. He hopes to stock it with Judean lions, Syrian bears, roc and fallow deer from Iran. Like Noah, he will do his best to ensure that the beasts go forth and multiply. "We wish to live amid life," he says...
Choice. Now they are coming back, thanks to Israel's official conservation department, the Nature Reserves Authority, and its burly, indefatigable director Major General Avraham Yoffe, 58. "It fell to my generation to choose between protecting the last remnants of biblical animals or allowing them to perish irretrievably," he says...
...SEVENTH DAY edited by Avraham Shapira. 276 pages. Scribners...
...achievement is all the more notable because an arkful of poets and novelists-Amos Oz, Avraham B. Yehoshua, Yehuda Amichai, among others-have been there first with the agonies of self-examination. Despite them, The Israelis deserves Elon's own description: "The first critical analysis of Israel written from within." Together with The Seventh Day, an edited tape of young soldiers from a kibbutz discussing the Six-Day War, Elon's essay sardonically welcomes Israel into a new era-the era of public self-doubt...