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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1989

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Notebook Pillar of Fire series starts on SBS next week

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 29 September 1989 · page 21

PILLAR of Fire — the history of the Zionist movement — will be launched on SBS Television next week. The Israeli documentary series on the Zionist…

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Editorial Comment Thursday, September 21, 1989 Fire out of control

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 29 September 1989 · page 12

THE terrible, man-made conflagration that, ragipg for nearly two days, reduced the forests and brushland of the Mount Carmel National Park to ashes, has now died down…

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Dan Caesarea lacked smoke detectors; 50 of 110 rooms destroyed Late alarm aids big hotel blaze

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 6 October 1989 · page 4

CAESAREA - A huge fire that destroyed 50 of the 110 rooms at the Dan Caesarea hotel last week was not discovered "for a long time”…

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JNF: Less forest fire damage this year

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 20 October 1989 · page 4

Damage from forest and brush fires fell by half in the first nine months of this year, despite the size of the Carmel Park blaze and the…

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In the News The making of pillar of fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 20 October 1989 · page 2

THE STORIES behind the making of Pillar of Fire, the series on Zionism televised on SBS on consecutive Sundays, are as…

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The making of pillar of fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 27 October 1989 · page 37

THE STORIES behind the making of Pillar of Fire, the series on Zionism televised on SBS on consecutive Sundays, are as…

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Great Balls Of Fire (USA 1969; dist: Roadshow; 104 mins)

Filmnews · Wednesday 1 November 1989 · page 12

Not having read Myra Gale's version of her life with the legendary wild man of rock'n'roll, Jerry Lee Lewis, It's difficult to say how authentic Great Balls Of Fire…

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Israel's forest fires wreak havoc

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 10 November 1989 · page 2

ISRAEL’S trees do not regrow after a fire, unlike trees in Australia which are programmed to go up in flames every eight-to-10 years, Jewish National Fund…

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The making of pillar of fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 10 November 1989 · page 2

THE STORIES behind the making of Pillar of Fire, the series on Zionism televised on SBS on consecutive Sundays, are as…

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The making of pillar of fire the Stories behind the making of Pillar of Fire the series on Zionism televised on SBS on consecutive Sundays, are as fascinating as the program itself. The UIA’s Young Leadership director Yonni Shapira, whose wife, Linda, was assistant producer on the Israeli television series, will each week pick out some of the more absorbing incidents to preview each episode

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 November 1989 · page 33

WHO WILL give the survivors shelter? Chapter six deals with the Zionist movement’s attempts to smuggle Jews out of Europe…

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‘No pribfc mtoestn trials for share manipiAdiaBi’ A-G under fire for ruling on bankers

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 24 November 1989 · page 5

Attorney-General Yosef Harish came under scathing criticism last week for bis decision not to prosecute the officials who headed the…

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El Salvador government refuses cease-fire

Tribune · Wednesday 29 November 1989 · page 5

The offensive by the liberation forces in El Salvador over the past three weeks has exposed the brutal dictatorship…

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SPOTLIGHT ‘When your house is on fire, you’ll take shelter anywhere’ ‘There is a natural tendency here to blame the Jews’ Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews seem ready to leave for Israel as soon as possible, writes our New York correspondent, Walter Ruby, who has just completed a three-week assignment in the USSR during which he found ‘an extremely dangerous’ social and economic situation

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 1 December 1989 · page 5

A SPECTRE is simultaneously haunting and thrilling Israel and world Jewry: the spectre of unrestrained Soviet Jewish aliya…

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Aust arms trade under fire

Tribune · Wednesday 6 December 1989 · page 12

"At of time when peace is breaking out following the Gorbachev initiative, that is leading to a fall in arms sales and their production, we have been chosen as the venue for this 'bazaar' in the hope of drumming up…

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Carmel Forest Fires

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 15 December 1989 · page 10

Concerned JNF supporters in Australia have so far provided sufficient funds for the replanting of nearly…

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Fire

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 December 1989 · page 16

There I was, standing in the middle of a raging fire. The fire was crackling and roaring at nature…

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