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Follow May. 2, 2021 In the summer of 1982, Israel s Foreign Ministry set to work on a special mission. “We continue to spare no effort on this issue, which is currently a central one on our agenda,” an internal ministry document says of the mission. “We shall leave no stone unturned, whether or not this thing succeeds,” another document says. “Intensive treatment that encompasses both institutions and public figures in Israel and abroad… feverish and tireless efforts… at the highest diplomatic levels,” other documents add. The mission that so occupied the Foreign Ministry personnel 40 years ago had nothing to do with the First Lebanon War, which had just begun, but with another much larger and deadlier war: the Armenian genocide in 1915, during which an estimated 1.5 million people were killed by the forces of the Ottoman Empire. ....
Catholic Review Cardinal Gibbons, who died 100 years ago, was committed to Ireland March 11, 2021 Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Before his death the week after St. Patrick’s Day in 1921, Cardinal James Gibbons helped send humanitarian aid to war-ravaged Ireland, concluding a lifelong commitment to the country. Born in Baltimore in 1834, Gibbons’ Irish immigrant parents three years later moved the family back to their native County Mayo. There, in Ballinrobe, the future cardinal lived his teen years during the Great Famine, as one million Irish died of hunger and disease and twice as many emigrated from the island, many to America. ....
Cork woman suspected of being informer had hair hacked off with wool shears What was in the news 100 years ago today, by Richard Forrest of Cork City Library Mount Joy prison. The chief clerk was held up on his way from the bank and robbed of a bag containing the wages of the prison employees. Richard Forrest Attack on woman The house of a woman farmer near Castletownbere was broken into by eight masked men, the Echo reported on Saturday, March 5, 1921. She was robbed of £35 and dragged into the yard where her hair was cut with wool shears. The motive appears to be that she visited the police barracks recently and was suspected of imparting information. ....