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Examples
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You can reach him tonight: he'll be in a fly-blown club called Shabtai's in Silchester Lane – just behind St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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In an earlier era they would have found their life's purpose as followers of Shabtai Tzvi, William Davies or Father Divine.
Not the Ones We've Been Waiting For Bret Stephens 2010
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Scholem even wrote a book about the most infamous one, the 17th-century false messiah Shabtai Tzvi.
Is Madonna Jewish? Evan R. Goldstein 2011
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GJ's examples of modern authors who write "light" novels are Malamud, Shabtai, Simon, Perec, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Kundera, Joseph Heller and Peter Handke.
Culture Maxine 2009
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The Israelis were represented by Shabtai Kalmanovitch, a Jew formerly from Russia who traded in diamonds in Africa and offered his assistance to the Mossad in helping find Arad “as a gesture of good will.”
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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“He used the heaviest possible guns, so that he would not only be forgiven, but also have his record cleared,” the Mossad director Shabtai Shavit would recount later.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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In March 1990, at one of the periodic meetings that the director of the Mossad holds with his CIA counterpart, Shabtai Shavit heard disconcerting criticism from CIA director William H. Webster.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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These demands were submitted to the Mossad director at the time, Shabtai Shavit, but he was firmly opposed.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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A year and a half later, Shabtai Shavit would change his mind.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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When Shabtai Kalmanovitch was discovered to be a Soviet agent, and was put on trial for espionage in 1998, Zichroni defended him.
The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007
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