Highlights from 1993

• The $5 Billion Folly
  Ariel Sharon rushed to put roofs over the heads of a massive wave of new immigrants. Today, more than two years and $5 billion later, 70,000 apartments stand empty and unwanted, and mobile-home sites are turning into Israel's new slums
  
• Expulsion: Anatomy of a Decision
  Since taking office, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has virtually
  
• Sex, Lies, and Bibigate
  The `Netanyahu affair,' Israel's first political sex scandal, could halt the meteoric rise of Israel's most telegenic politician and leave his Likud party hopelessly split.
  
• Gestures of Friendship
  American black leaders are reaching out to the Jews, seeking to rebuild the historic black-Jewish coalition. But will the new dialogue filter through to disaffected black youth, all too easily galvanized by the anti-Semitic rhetoric of extremists?
  
• Let the Chips Fall Where They May
  Fast-food firms and farmers are engaged in a sizzling dispute over the import of frozen French-fried potatoes.
  
• The Babies from Brazil
  Frustrated by the scarcity of babies put up for adoption here, hundreds of desperate Israelis are looking further afield and buying babies for $10,000-$15,000 from South America.
  
• The Sun King
  Sol Kerzner made it big on gambling in the old South Africa. Now he's gambling he can keep winning in the new South Africa.
  
• A Tale of Two Cities
  Twenty-six years ago the Six-Day War toppled the walls between East and West Jerusalem. Yet the city is more divided today than at any time since then. Few Arabs or Jews cross into each other's neighborhoods. And those that do, have had to develop their own `survival strategies.'
  
• By Mahler Possessed
  An American Jewish millionare lives out his obsession with the composer on the podium
  
• Members of the Tribe
  Pork is out. Circumcision is in. Hands are ritually washed before meals. The Star of David is a tribal symbol. Why? Because Africa's Balembas believe they are Jewish.
  
• Why Israel Went to Battle
  Israel tried to use diplomatic channels to stop Hizballah's rocket attacks. But when it became clear that restraint was being interpreted as weakness, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered an assault.
  
• After Demjanjuk: Is the Hunt for Nazis Over?
  The confusion over the identity of Treblinka's Ivan the Terrible resonated far beyond the case of Israel vs. John Demjanjuk. The Demjanjuk affair, Nazi-hunters acknowledge, has slowed down prosecutions the world over.
  
• History in the Making
  Leslie Susser traces the course of the secret talks that finally broke the Middle East peace deadlock, examines the details of the autonomy plans and looks at the pitfalls ahead
  
• Return of the Lost Tribes
  Could Israel be inundated with millions of Africans and Asians claiming Jewish descent? As the first members of the Shinlung tribe, from the remote Indian-Burmese border, undergo conversion in Israel, the notion is becoming ever less absurd. And Israel's minister of absorption, Yair Tsaban, is clearly rattled by the prospect.
  
• Two Bullets to His Head
  Viktor the Yid's untimely death in a hail of gunfire casts light on the Russian mob scene
  
• War of the Worlds
  Traditionalists fight modernists in a bitter conflict over who will be the new leader of Israel's Druse
  
• Peace: Toward Self-Rule - Bombers for Peace
  The PLO, at its headquarters in Tunis, is on the verge of a major internal revolution as Yasser Arafat gains support for the peace process from some unexpected quarters
  
• Who's the Boss?
  There's a lot about Jerusalem that the ultra-Orthodox don't like. Having voted Ehud Olmert into City Hall, they intend to make some changes.
  
• Spielberg's Close Encounter
  Steven Spielberg is the one true heir to the great Jewish moguls who created Hollywood. Now, with a new film about the Holocaust, the filmmaker comes to grips with a Jewish heritage that has shaped his life and career.
  

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