JEWELERS
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along with the Palestinian Au-
thority's top leaders, is expected
to attend the concert, according
to Yediot Aharonot.
Ms. Ben, who sings Middle
Eastern music in Hebrew and
Arabic, has already performed
in countries around the world, in-
cluding Morocco, Russia, France
and Germany. So singing in
Gaza, which Israel gave up to the
PLO last year as part of peace ne-
gotiations, is not such a big deal,
she told Yediot Aharonot. "My
dream is to perform in the Opera
House in Cairo."
She is very excited about the
content of the concert, she told
Yediot Aharonot. Accompanied
by a 24-piece band, she will sing
a 75-minute Egyptian passionate
love song, "Anta Ohmari."
"I hope my singing," Ms. Ben
told Yediot Aharonot, "will serve
as bridge to peace."
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Once A Jew, Always A Jew
The Family
That Serves Together
Lt. (Ret.) Gabi and Gen. (Ret.)
Ran Masad of Benyamina are
seeing their children following
their footsteps. All five of them,
ages 19 to 26, are serving in Is-
rael Defense Forces — three as
career officers and two as soldiers
in mandatory service, according
to Yediot Aharonot.
They are all serving in combat
units — tank corps and air force,
according to Yediot Aharonot. Be-
sides having tons of laundry,
their mother also has many
prayers to say.
"I think a lot about the possi-
bility that something would hap-
pen to them," Mrs. Masad told
Yediot Aharonot. "Every time
there is a terrorist attack, I imag-
ine how [military officials] come
notify me.
"I knock on all the wood in the
house." ❑
In a few weeks, Edna Bahran
will officially separate from her
home country. That's when the
Israel Defense Forces will give up
control of the Palestinian village
that she has called home for the
past 12 years.
Thirty-five-year-old Edna is
one of dozens of Jewish women
who have married Muslim Pales-
tinians and moved to the West
Bank and Gaza, according to
Yediot Aharonot.
"I am happy, I have no re-
grets," Mrs. Bahran told Yediot
Aharonot. "I have a great hus-
band, kids that I just hope will be
healthy, and a God that we all
share."
She also shares her husband,
48-year-old Ahmad, with anoth-
er woman, 42-year-old Nazira. In
the beginning, they felt tense in
each other's presence, but they
have grown to live in peace and
harmony, they told Yediot
Aharonot.
Now, if only the other Jews
and Palestinians in the area
could follow their example ...
Let's Go To The Mall
If you think South Florida has
a lot of malls, you should see cen-
tral Israel.
Central Israel, roughly the
size of South Florida, has 57
malls and 20 more under con-
struction, according to Yediot
Aharonot.
At this rate, the malls will
shorten the lives of the old- fash-
ioned independent stores that
comprise the cities' downtowns,
which, unlike their United States
counterparts, are thriving.
Israelis love shopping at malls.
Sixty-four percent of them stop
at a mall at least once a month,
according to Yediot Aharonot. A
third go once a week.
And we ask, 'What would Is-
rael's founding prime minister,
David Ben-Gurion, have said
about this?"
Ceremony Recalls
Bosnian Victims
Rome (JTA) — As the possibility
of peace arose once again in the
former Yugoslavia, seven Jewish
victims from war-torn Bosnia
were memorialized with a cere-
mony and tombstone unveiling
at the Jewish cemetery in the
Croatian coastal city of Split.
After escaping from Bosnia,
the seven refugees died while
they were living in emergency
refugee housing run by the Amer-
ican Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee in Makarska, locat-
ed near Split.
Ranko Jajcanin, a young man
from the Bosnian capital of Sara-
jevo who is studying for the rab-
binate in Israel, led the ceremony,
which was held under the aus-
pices of the Hebrew Free Burial
Association.
About 50 people attended the
unveiling, including members of
the Split Jewish community and
Bosnian refugees now living in
Makarska.
For family and friends, the cer-
emony provided a rare occasion
to say Kaddish and to participate
in a religious memorial service.
Among the attendees was Jacob
Finci, president of La Benevo-
lencija, the Sarajevo Jewish wel-
fare organization that has gained
international fame for its non-sec-
tarian humanitarian aid activi-
ties during the Bosnian conflict.
He said discussions were un-
der way to hold a similar cere-
mony to commemorate five
Bosnian Jewish refugees who are
buried in the Jewish cemetery
in the Yugoslav capital of
Belgrade.
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