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I knew an Israel who came from Israel. He had been a colonel in, I think, the bomb-disposal squad but came to South Africa to lecture in Hebrew literature - he was a poet as well as a cantor. And his live-in lady was blonde, blue-eyed and German!

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I loved my friend; he died too young. But Israel, as well as being a geographical name, is also extremely loaded with political meaning as well as the religious notes of its biblical origin. I would want to know a lot about the bearer and his parents before I could bring myself to like it.