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English Webster (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
While the soldiers' politically charged funerals were taking place up north, most senior journalists gathered at their colleague Eric Silver 's graveside in Jerusalem. The prominent British correspondent died on Tuesday night from pancreatic cancer. At 73, he was still an active freelancer and he and his wife Bridget contributed to Jerusalem's literati scene. Silver was an imposing...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Eric Silver was a leading Anglo-Israeli journalist in Israel, author of a well-regarded biography of Menachem Begin, and one of the most insightful commentators on Israeli politics since the foundation of the state. He was always very much a professional journalist who could be guaranteed to produce intelligent and well balanced prose in the shortest possible time.
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My Right Word (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
A good friend, almost a colleague and a writer of professional standard, despite understandable biases, has passed away today. Eric Silver. Eric employed me on his biography of Menachem Begin, "Begin: The Haunted Prophet", New York: Random House, 1984, 278 pp.(*) which led, eventually, to a clash on the pages of The Jewish Chronicle of London when I criticized his description of...
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Shiloh Musings (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
During my recent trip to New York I found it more and more difficult to discover any important news about Israel. All the media hyped was celebrity divorce and marital problems. And a murder here and there. This Friday's Jerusalem Post obituary about the late journalist Eric Silver mentioned that nowadays there aren't many foreign journalists any more. Until a few years ago, all of the...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
AFTER NEARLY three decades of writing for the Guardian from London, Jerusalem and Delhi, the journalist Eric Silver, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, decided to make his home in Israel.
