CROSSWORD 1008

ACROSS

8 Jewish genius, but a mug to his fellow countrymen (8)

9 Nazi KL near Bergen in Germany, liberated by the British (6)

10 Badly timed deals disturbed troubled region (6,4) 11 Title accorded to Jewish leaders heading Talmudic academies in the 7th to 13th century CE (4)

12 Esther’s predecessor as queen starts virtuous acts she has to implement (6)

14 By Romans, river is diverted around a Galilean city (8)

15 The archangel which appeared to Daniel (Dan. 8:15) (7)

17 Moshav in central Israel.located in the Sharon plain near Hod HaSharon (5,2)

20 Quarantined Golan Heights town on the SyrianIsraeli border (8)

22 Near where Abraham pitched his tent (Gen. 12:8) (6)

24 After end of business, primitive building is closed (4)

25 Jewish composer of the musical ‘Oliver’ (6,4)

27 Out of the UK using a minor highway (6)

28 A wedding (Yiddish) (8)

DOWN

1 Car taken by graduate gets fewest points (6)

2 American edition, no longer new (4)

3 Israeli originally from the southern Red Sea area (8)

4 An early Florentine poet, noted as moderately slow (7) 5 A descendant of Benjamin (1 Chron. 8:11) (6)

6 Character played by Warren Mitchell in ‘Till Death Do Us Part’ (3,7)

7 The priest who strengthened himself (2 Chron. 23:1) (8)

13 Jewish actor playing ‘Inspector Dreyfus’ in the ‘Pink Panther’ movie series (7,3)

16 An addiction to US lager, might one say, not entirely in Gulf port? (3,5)

18 The State of Israel’s first Foreign Minister (19152002) (4,4)

19 Ex-PM getting about a Balearic island (7) 21 Spanish city, badly looted (6)

23 Make a mistake, and get mission performed (6) 26 Public transport hard to find in the Australian outback (4)