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LARRY DERFNER
ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
After learning Monday night that
a bridge had collapsed killing two
Australians and wounding scores
of others, it was hard for many in
Israel to believe that opening cer-
emonies of the Maccabiah Games
were going ahead.
"Oh no, this is terrible, this is
awful, they're taking a body out of
the river," said the television re-
porter. A few minutes later, Pres-
ident Ezer Weizman told the
crowd that he wished the opening
ceremony could have been happi-
er, "but I hope that the achieve-
ments of this Maccabiah will
make us all very happy."
In Tuesday's press notices, both
of Israel's two main newspapers,
Yediot Aharonot and Ma'ariv, de-
scribed the event as a mixture of
"kitsch and death."
Kitsch as in Zionist kitsch —
folk dancers in blue-and-white cos-
tumes, sentimental, treacly pa-
triotic songs, giant-screen photos
of Theodor Herzl, of pioneers mak-
ing the desert bloom.
They screened the pictures of
the 11 Israeli sportsmen killed at
the 1972 Munich Olympics, and
the announcer said, "We must al-
ways remember them, and we
must never forget." Israel's war
dead, the victims of terrorism, the
Six Million were all remembered.
An outtake from Rabin's speech
on the White House lawn was
broadcast — "Enough! Enough
bloodshed, enough tears" — and
there was irony in everything, a
sickly, mortifying irony. But the
night went on.
Laser lights were flashing,
troupes of smiling children break-
danced on the field of Ramat Gan's
National Stadium, the announc-
er was shouting, "Come on, every-
body clap your hands!" and the
audience applauded.
The TV showed all this, mean-
while cutting back and forth to
divers searching the Hayarkon
River for bodies, the helicopter
with its searchlight in the air, the
ambulances taking victims to hos-
pitals.
Against the loud music and
pageantry on screen, the TV news-
caster said Magen David Adorn
was asking the public to come in
and donate Type 0 blood. Mem-
bers of the Australian team try-
ing to call home couldn't get
through at first because the Bezek
national telephone system was on
strike, but Bezek soon made an
exception and the lines to Aus-
tralia were back up.
By the close of the ceremony, it
was known that one person was
tread — Gregory Small, a 3ri-year-
old bowler from Sydney. Yetty
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