She'an

– November 1974: PLO takes responsibility for the PDFLP's Beit She'an murders in which 4 Israelis are killed.

Arafat revisited... Minzo 2004

– November 1974: PLO takes responsibility for the PDFLP's Beit She'an murders in which 4 Israelis are killed.

Archive 2004-11-01 Minzo 2004

Shas's shadowy grassroots system is a rebuke to David Levy's machine politics, which delivered insufficient benefits to the Sephardim in Beit She'an.

Israel Now 2000

I had known Beit She'an in the past, but because it was the first town I saw in Israel after weeks in the Arab world, my perspective on it was new.

Israel Now 2000

The first rule of politics is to help your constituents, but Beit She'an has little to show for Levy's years in Israeli cabinets.

Israel Now 2000

Beit She'an is one of the few places in Israel that did not benefit from the huge Russian immigration, the liberalization of the economy, and the software and cell-phone revolutions that, in a chain reaction, changed society here in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Israel Now 2000

He told me to take a taxi to the bus station in Beit She'an, a few minutes away to the west, where he would pick me up.

Israel Now 2000

Even the most Westernized places in Turkey appeared less rootless than Beit She'an, whose bus station I could almost have mistaken for one in a fast-buck Mexican border town.

Israel Now 2000

On the way to Beit She'an I noticed signs in the other direction saying PEACE BRIDGE and JORDAN.

Israel Now 2000

The problem was cronyism: Beit She'an was testimony to the abject political failure of David Levy, the town's favorite son, and Foreign Minister under Likud governments and now under the newly elected Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Israel Now 2000