, Borschel-Dan said she had come fresh out of ulpan as a 25-year-old single. In the interim, she went through a series of quick promotions, got married and is now a mother of five – including a set of twins."} 6b:{"position":13,"content":"■ THE FORMER chief Near East, South Asia and Africa researcher at the US Information Agency, pollster Dr. David Pollock, is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute. Pollock and members of his team conducted a poll on Arab opinion in Jerusalem and the Middle East. The findings are interesting, but Pollock is spreading himself thin in disseminating the information. At a presentation he made to the World Jewish Congress Research Institute, he mentioned some of the other organizations and institutions to which he’d spoken in recent days, and said that he still had to make a presentation at the US Embassy before returning to America. But he’ll be back in June to knock on more doors."} 6c:{"position":14,"content":"In the last few months, public opinion has become more important and is having a greater political effect than ever, which is why it’s important to listen to public opinion in Arab societies, he said. Of course, public opinion does not necessarily carry weight. There is no evidence, said Pollock, that the Palestinian Authority is listening to the views of people in east Jerusalem, who are relatively more moderate than Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza."} 6d:{"position":15,"content":"■ THE FAMOUS chestnut tree that was a source of comfort to Anne Frank when she gazed out from her hiding place has been symbolically revived in the Martyrs’ Forest near Jerusalem, where there is an Anne Frank memorial. The original chestnut tree collapsed and died last year during a series of storms, but thanks to a fundraising campaign that was launched in Holland, a memorial, including a chestnut tree, has been established in her name at the site. The memorial was inaugurated last week in the presence of Dutch friends of the Jewish National Fund, who noted that

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Collecting for the Irish Jewish Museum, a changing of the guard at the ‘Post,’ and a chestnut tree for Anne Frank.