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As I drove home (with my window open, of course), I thought about how today the people of Beer Sheva are coming to terms with the 'matzav' (situation).
GayandRight 2009
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I don't know if it's the 'matzav' (translation: 'situation'), the workday being interrupted occasionally by dashes to the shelter to await the 'boom' signaling that the rocket has landed somewhere and we can now go back to work or maybe something else.
treppenwitz 2009
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"matzav," as the Israel-Palestinian conflict is called in Israel - it means The Situation
Tablet Magazine Marc Tracy 2010
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"matzav," as the Israel-Palestinian conflict is called in Israel - it means The Situation
Tablet Magazine Marc Tracy 2010
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βIn Israel, a garrison unit (Hebrew: cheil matzav) is a regular unit defending a specified zone such as a city, a province, a castle or fortress, or even a single building.β
Hoss Men (continued) 2010
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We walk around these stores like helpless losers, paying these crazy prices each year before Shmuel Miskin at matzav. com a couple of weeks ago.
Slashfood Naomi Shulman 2010
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"We went to see different communities in the South to express our solidarity and see the matzav (situation) there," said Rabbi Muskat, the mara d'atra of the Young Israel of Oceanside.
WordPress.com News 2009
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That said, the uncut, beginning-to-end of sentence quotes from Rosenthal do raise questions: Why is she going on about the matzav (situation) in Israel?
JTA - Recent News 2009
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Ze lo matzav tov, "Hebrew for" This is not a good situation, "before the line went dead.
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