Yael Dayan

A year after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, an ever-divided Israel flocked to his graveside, the site of his murder and school auditoriums on Thursday, trying to resume a truncated soul-searching over the meaning of the peacemaker's violent death. The memorials to Rabin--on the anniversary of his death according to the Jewish calendar--were sad, if somewhat ritualized, in a country that has lived from crisis to tragedy for almost half a century.

A month into the war in Lebanon, Israel's long-quiescent peace movement is suddenly issuing a ringing call to arms. Isolated and beset by infighting in the first weeks of the conflict, the still-small peace camp was spurred into action by the Israeli government's authorization this week of a broader ground invasion in Lebanon.

JERUSALEM -- In a small sanctuary near the ancient Phoenician city of Caesarea, Israeli therapists are treating discharged soldiers for an affliction some call "intifada syndrome": The young men are violent and confused. In Palestinian cities, social workers face a wave of women who were beaten or abused at home and a rash of intra-clan murders. Everywhere, children are learning about hate. Life seems cheap.

Irving Howe, author of "World of Our Fathers," a classic on American-Jewish life, was nearly prevented from speaking in Beverly Hills last month.