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Floods & storms, 1989

12 stories in Sydney's papers

Le Cyclone Delilah a Vaincu Un Heros De Legende

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 18 January 1989 · page 12

Venu de Townsville, le cyclone Delilah qui a balayé la Calédonie (à l'exception Nouméa) les 2 et 3 décembre, a causé des dégâts importants…

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The flood of letters about Rabbi Milecki’s letter to The Sydney Morning Herald continues

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 14 April 1989 · page 10

I wish to express my concern about Rabbi Milecki’s letter to The Sydney Morning Herald on March 31…

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Security zone: a haven from Beirut’s storm

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 May 1989 · page 5

David Rudge visits Israel’s buffer area in South Lebanon and talks to refugees from the fighting in the north LONG LINES of people formed up at the frontier crossing point - men…

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Une cinquantaine de navires détruits par le cyclone Lili

Le Courrier Australien · Wednesday 10 May 1989 · page 9

"Lili" a été, dans la nuit du 10 au avril, le 3° cyclone de l'année à affecter la Calédonie. Outre des toits emportés et des inondations, ce sont…

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Festival ‘in the eye of the storm'

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 26 May 1989 · page 3

The three-week Israel Festival opened in Jerasalem on Saturday night with the New Israeli Opcra's production of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann at die Jerusalem Theatre. President Herzog and other…

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From the uneasy calm before the storm Soldiers not needed, said Beijing Review

Tribune · Wednesday 14 June 1989 · page 2

The following article, published in the Beijing Review of May 29 - June 4, was written after martial law had been declared in Beijing, but before the massacre of students and…

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Le cyclone Hugo sur la Guadeloupe Cinq morts et des dégâts considérables

Le Courrier Australien · Tuesday 10 October 1989 · page 3

Le passage durant 20 heures les samedi 16 et dimanche 17 septembre, cyclone Hugo sur la Guadeloupe a provoqué des dégâts aussi importants…

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SPOTLIGHT At the eye of the storm [?] tempest rages around it, but Vivian Eden found that at Ulpan Akiva [?] teaching of Hebrew and Arabic carries on in a tranquil atmosphere

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 27 October 1989 · page 8

... Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments…

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Histadrut warns: 'Areas’ flood country with cheap goods

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 10 November 1989 · page 8

Cheap goods flooding the local market from the West Bank and Gaza Strip are “a tangible threat” to the economy, Histadrut officials…

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BACKGROUND Who needs a Bill of Human Rights? David Makovsky finds out what was behind the the political storm over the attempt to pass a human rights bill in the Knesset

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 1 December 1989 · page 7

ON THE FACE of things, the proposed Basic Law of Human Rights, that would guarantee elementary liberties for Israeli citizens, should not be a matter of controversy. But briefly last week. the bill threatened the to cause the dissolution of the…

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Bracing for a Soviet deluge With the gates of the Soviet Union now opening up, Israel could face an influx of immigrants unprecedented since the mass migration from the Arab countries in the early years of the State. Recently back from Israel, Sam Moshinsky, executive chairman of the United Israel Appeal of Australia, presented this report on the huge challenge facing Israel to the UIA of Victoria’s annual general meeting earlier this month

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 8 December 1989 · page 20

“In expectation of mass aliyah from the Soviet Union, the Government of Israel has declared that it will absorb every Jew who wishes to come on aliyah to Israel,…

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Out of Aden From December 1948, and throughout 1949, the trickle of Yemenite Jews fleeing to Eretz Yisrael grew to a flood. The man responsible for dealing with this influx of humanity, Haim Sadok, describes the days of their coming

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 15 December 1989 · page 9

On the clear, bone-chilling afternoon of December 16, 1948, a plane arriving directly from South Yemen landed in the…

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