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Perhaps I'm being uncharitable. Some parts of the film I enjoyed immensely. There were a number of out-of-focus, although clearly recognizable, shots of my neighborhood in Tel Aviv, right near Kikar Dizengoff (Israel's Broadway and Third Avenue rolled into one, but like nothing so much as a glorified Davis Square). There was also a nice number in the Super-Sol in Jerusalem, although I would like to point out that the Supermarket on Ibn Gvirol in Tel Aviv would have made the point about Israel's plastic culture after the Six-Day War much more tellingly...
Commercial air traffic was snarled at the peak of the summer season, since regional controllers for international flights are located on Cyprus. With them off the job because of the fighting, airports were closed down at Beirut, Teheran, Tel Aviv and other cities, stranding thousands of businessmen and tourists. Only El Al was flying. The Israeli airline threaded its jets on a careful course to avoid both Cyprus air battles and hostile Arab air space...
...first step in a long road to overthrow Israel. Yasser Arafat, leader of the P.L.O., is heavily oriented toward the Soviet Union. I cannot think of any Israeli who will agree to have Russian experts and Russian missiles at the gates of Jerusalem or the entrance to Tel Aviv...
...Portugal and did not get it until Saturday afternoon. I think that the performance of our people was magnificent. Were it not for the MAC there is some question whether Israel would have survived. Despite problems of logistics and weather, the first of our aircraft touched down in Tel Aviv Sunday afternoon...
...Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the heavy iron gates were trampled down by a crying, shouting mob. The homecoming Israelis who debarked from the DC-6 chartered by the International Red Cross were literally passed hand over hand above the crowd to joyous relatives. Attending dignitaries, led by retiring Premier Golda Meir and her successor Yitzhak Rabin, had to scramble for their safety as well as their dignity. At Damascus International Airport, meanwhile, 10,000 delirious people, ignoring streams of water played on them from fire-engine hoses, broke through cordons of paratroopers who attempted futilely to hold them back...