Poem: "Jerusalem is a merry-go-round" / Yehuda Amichai -- Roots of Jewish renewal / Moshe Dann -- Rabin's dead / Etgar Keret -- Loss, discovery or art: Israeli landscape / Ardyn Halter -- The State of Israel declares independence / Shelley Kleiman -- The literature of the generation of the state / A.B. Yehoshua -- The national flag / Reuven Kashani -- A city and stone: Urban sculpture in Ashdod -- Death sentence / Moshe Shamir -- The map of Madaba / Aharon Yaffe -- The wellspring of memory / Haim Gouri -- In the fiftieth year / Rinna Samuel -- Some unpublished correspondence with Dov Sadan / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- In at the birth / Marlin Levin -- No stranger can understand this / Aharon Appelfeld -- Continuity and change: 92 years of Judaica at Bezalel / Muli Ben Sasson -- Nasser's waiting for Rabin / Leah Aini -- Fashion in Eretz-Israel / Ayala Raz -- Book reviews: Meir Shalev: 'Esau' -- Yeshayahu Koren: 'Funeral at Noon' -- Robert Friend: 'Selected poems of Rachel'.