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Over 50 years later, Saul Bellow’s Israel observations remain strikingly relevant - review

THEN-ISRAELI AMBASSADOR to the US, Yitzhak Rabin, and his wife Leah mingle with prime minister Golda Meir and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, in Washington, 1973 – two years before Saul Bellow visited Israel.

On this day: US, Britain strike Afghanistan over September 11 attacks, kickstart War on Terror

A US F-14 fighter takes off from the main deck of the USS Enterprise early 09 October 2001 as a second wave US-led air attacks on Afghanistan was launched with residents of Kabul reporting bombs hitting targets on the outskirts of the city.

The Diary That Survived Entebbe

(From L) Ester Smith and husband, Larry, with her parents, Regina and Yehuda Gottlieb, z”l, in Ramat Gan, 1979.