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...RAMON Tel Aviv...
Nothing of the sort, according to a military spokesman in Tel Aviv: "No Egyptian force stayed in our area for 24 hours. No Egyptian infiltrated any Israeli fortification, or stayed in one, or destroyed one." The Cairo claim, the Israelis added, was nothing but "a morale-boosting fantasy...
Word of Mouth. While Nasser may be able to get away with news distortion in Egypt, the Israeli government dares not deceive its citizens. A Western diplomat in Tel Aviv says: "Here the object is to keep everyone on edge all the time. These people have to be ready to pick up their guns and run for the front whenever the phone rings, day or night. The price the government pays is that it must present the facts." But sometimes it delays formal announcements, to the annoyance of the foreign press. Israel also censors the copy of foreign newsmen, although...
...Israel's closely knit, family-oriented society, its people often stay abreast of the war by word of mouth. When the Israelis captured and carried off an entire Egyptian radar station on Dec. 26, half of Tel Aviv knew about it within 24 hours. "My wife heard about it at the hairdresser's," an Israeli officer recalls. "My daughter heard about it at her dancing school." But the government did not confirm the story to newsmen for more than a week, and has been similarly slow or suppressive with other information for foreigners...
...been speaking out more forcefully than any other major political figure in Israel. As top executive of the 300,000-member party, a post once held by Premier Golda Meir, Russian-born Eliav, 48, feels that he now has "the channel to disseminate my ideas." In Tel Aviv last week, he told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin about those ideas, which include some radical proposals for unilateral Israeli concessions to the Arabs...