Word: arish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declined to about 1,500 on Oct. 16. But after Oct. 16 the number of daily sorties increased sharply. The U.S. supplied Israel with new planes, helicopters and tanks, and volunteers from the U.S., usually with dual nationality, arrived in large numbers. U.S. planes flew into El Arish airport on the edge of the Sinai with tanks that were sent to the front on tractor tank transports. This is the equipment that Israel is using...
...Tours. Similarly, at a Mediterranean settlement called Dikla, established near the old Egyptian city of El Arish in the Sinai, red-haired Community Leader Motke Ben-Ya'acov proudly shows an Israeli identity card that gives his address as "Dikla, Northern Sinai." "There's no chance we'll ever leave," says Ben-Ya'acov. "The government will never give back El Arish." Nor is Israel likely to relinquish the oil town of Abu Rodeis to the south on the Gulf of Suez, where Israelis are pumping 18,000 tons daily of what was formerly Egyptian...
...family to the land of promise, where he felt they all belonged. Settled in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kiron, the Aroyos often spent Sabbaths touring their new country. One bright Saturday they set out south to visit a seaside nahal, or fortified camp, in the Sinai below El Arish...
Sadat's Suez plan calls for the Israelis to withdraw from their fortified Bar-Lev Line to new positions farther back in the desert along a line from just east of the Mediterranean coastal town of El Arish to Ras Mohammed, at the extreme southern tip of the Sinai peninsula just west of Sharm el Sheikh (see map). Once the withdrawal had been accomplished, Egyptians would occupy the area and begin the laborious business of clearing the waterway (see box, page...
Last week Israel finally gave its "general views" on the question to the U.S. Israel is not prepared to meet Sadat's insistence that it should pull back its troops to a line midway in the Sinai, which extends from El Arish to Sharm el Sheikh. Nor is Israel willing to talk about Suez in terms of a first step in a larger withdrawal unless it first receives guarantees of peace from the Arabs...