Avi Dichter epitomized the insistence that with resolve and imagination, terror can be put on the defensive.
If not the exclusive innovator of the tactics now being studied around the world, the 51-year-old Dichter has at least been a key player in deploying them...
5764 RETROSPECT By THE JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A female suicide bomber kills 21 in Haifa; Baby formula scandal; 4 Israelis and a Briton kidnapped in Colombia; Yigal Amir asks for permission to marry; Attorney-General decides to close the Greek Island file against Ariel Sharon ...
On boldness and principle By ARMAND LAFERRE'RE
In a year of rising anti-Semitism, Nicolas Sarkozy showed a different side of France
Undetected power By AMOTZ ASA-EL
Uzi Landau, an assuming anti-hero symbolized the effort to derail Sharon's plan
Milk and money By JESSICA STEINBERG
By wedding dairy giant Strauss with chocolate powerhouse Elite, Ofra Strauss led Israel's largest-ever business merger
Shop till you drop By DAN GERSTENFELD
Israel's economic man of the year was the Israeli consumer The Jewish year of 5764 witnessed a real turnaround in the local economy.
Rabbi at a crossroads By ANSHEL PFEFFER
Yuval Sherlo personifies Israeli modern-Orthodoxy's new license, and urge, to crack the religious ghetto's confines
Transitory truths By HERB KEINON
While its position in the war on terror improved, Israel's strategic position suffered some severe setbacks
A season to remember By FRANKIE SACHS
Israeli basketball has had a year no one could have forecast
Enough with politics By TALYA HALKIN
Did Israeli artists spend the year resorting to romance in order to escape from a difficult reality, or to comment about it
Blue, white, and good By HANNAH BROWN
Following an exceptionally good year, Israeli cinema has narrowed its once yawning gap with foreign films
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