Word: caesarea
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...Prime Minister Meir set up a process by which the head of the Mossad, Israel's spy agency, could make the case for a candidate's assassination. The PM and select Cabinet members would say yea or nay. If yea, the hit would be executed by a unit called Caesarea, dubbed by some media the Wrath of God team...
DIED. EZER WEIZMAN, 80, pragmatic, influential former Israeli President; in Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic--he once responded to a young woman who wanted to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"-- he built and commanded the Israeli air force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country...
...DIED. EZER WEIZMAN, 80, pragmatic, influential former Israeli President; after a bout of pneumonia; in Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic?he once responded to a young woman wanting to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country...
...streets while taking power. But he was also a local who understood Judea's needs and its hard-won privilege of being governed under Jewish law. A builder king, he ordered up huge forts, palaces and indeed whole cities throughout Judea, and he created an artificial harbor at Caesarea Maritima that lasted 600 years...
...mount's porches and set off a citywide riot; eventually 2,000 rebels were crucified. In A.D. 26, the Roman governor provocatively ordered his troops to raise flags with Caesar's face within a few hundred feet of the central shrine. A mob marched to his house in Caesarea. His soldiers drew their swords. The Jews, in an extraordinary act of passive resistance, laid bare their necks and said they would rather die than see their religious laws flouted. The governor, a normally hot-tempered newcomer named Pontius Pilate, recalled the flags...