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After seven hours of detention, broken by a snack of cheese and jelly sandwiches and Pepsi-Cola, the prisoners were released with apologies for having been inconvenienced. Recrossing the Suez Canal, they were airlifted to Tel Aviv by the Israelis for a reunion with anxious wives. The trip continued with a visit to the Golan Heights, but already it was obviously a vast success. After all, by now just about everyone who visits Israel on similar junkets gets a VIP excursion to the Golan Heights or the Jordan River or Sharm el Sheikh. But, except for last week...
Last week the remaining units of Israel's invasion force withdrew from the West Bank of the Suez Canal. Emblazoned with signs saying GOODBYE AFRICA, HELLO TEL AVIV, tanks, halftracks and packed buses rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...
Juvenile crime in December was up 37% over the year before, partly because of the economic squeeze. Israel lately has been plagued by a series of strikes and strike threats. Last week the Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv discovered that the number of Israelis applying to emigrate to Canada in January had doubled over the year before...
...current parliament expires in 1977. Many Israelis hope that by that time a new generation of leaders will have emerged. "If someone in 1948 had told us that in 1974 public discussion would center around the same people we had then," says Amnon Rubinstein, the dean of Tel Aviv Law School, "we'd have been convinced that he needed to be hospitalized...
This movement has been reflected in the Israeli policy toward giving up the occupied territories--chiefly meaning the west bank of the Jordan--as part of a comprehensive peace agreement. Walzer said Meir told the group that the so-called Allon Plan was now official Tel Aviv policy; previously it had been considered a somewhat dovish alternative...