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Travel companies are leaping into action. Israel's Egged Bus Cooperative is preparing a Tel Aviv-Cairo trip for $6 one way. El Al hopes to start regular air service between the two cities. Shipping operators are planning a car-ferry service between Haifa or Ashdod and Port Said. To speed these plans, Israeli tourist officials have been trying to confer with their Egyptian counterparts at various international meetings...
...some Israelis actively opposed the new measures. In the ancient southern city of Beersheba, workers marched through the streets shouting "Begin go home!" One-day strikes closed down the postal service in Tel Aviv, the national airline El Al, Tel Aviv's airport and the major seaports of Ashdod and Haifa. Those and other token work stoppages were ordered by the 1.2 million-member Histadrut labor federation, whose Secretary-General Yeruham Meshel warned Begin: "If you have decided on a free economy, we will not agree to keep only wages under controls. We will not agree to have...
...radio broadcast, riots broke out in the rundown Hatikva section of Tel Aviv. For three nights mobs of hundreds of people roamed through the streets stoning cars and policemen and looting shops. Orderly demonstrations took place in Haifa, at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, and in Ashdod. More ominous for the government than the demonstrations was the action of the 1,100,000-member General Federation of Labor. Despite entreaties from the government, it demanded that workers be fully compensated for loss of income, an action that would certainly destroy the austerity program at the beginning...
DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The excavation of the ancient city of Tel Ashdod, Israel, now in the second year of a three-year excavation program. Repeat...
...Washington last week World Bank President Eugene Black announced that there was "a good chance" that his organization would give the Israeli economy another boost by lending Israel $27.5 million toward construction of a $46 million Mediterranean harbor at the old Philistine port of Ashdod. The port would handle Israel's growing citrus trade, as well as products (potash, phosphates and other minerals) now being extracted in growing volume from the Negev desert...