Israel
- June 12, 1985 - HaBonim disaster - A passenger train smashed into a bus carrying school children, at least twenty-two people are killed and seventeen are injured.
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:5.
Leaders of ancient Israel asking the last of the judges, Samuel, to appoint a king.