Word: avive
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...Arab terrorist organization, is to provoke Israelis into a pogrom of Arabs living in Israel and thereby shatter all Israeli hopes for peaceful coexistence in their occupied territories. Last week, in the latest of a series of bomb attacks, Arab terrorists struck for the first time in Tel Aviv and succeeded in rousing an angry Jewish response...
...virtually automatic routine has evolved for the prompt release of planes and passengers. The matter was far more serious last week when three well-dressed Arab passengers seized Israel's El Al Flight 426 an hour out of Rome and forced it to divert its course from Tel Aviv to Algiers. What the Arabs wanted from their skyway robbery was not a free trip but bounty and hostages to use against Israel...
...efforts fail, Israeli retaliation seems inevitable. Israel has often mounted punitive raids to redress alleged Arab wrongdoing. Air Algerie flights call regularly at Cairo, which is not far from Israeli airspace. It would be a relatively simple matter for Israeli fighter-interceptors to force one to land at Tel Aviv for use as a bargaining weapon...
Eshkol was willing to consider financial aid, but offered little hope for the other requests until Reform increased its ranks in Israel. Tel Aviv's chief rabbi, Brigadier General" Shlomo Goren, charged that "Reform leaders in America want to export their religion but not their bodies to Israel." To demonstrate an interest in exporting at least a few bodies, the progressives' governing board passed a resolution recommending that Reform Jews be encouraged to settle in Israel. Reform Rabbi Richard Hirsch of Washington, D.C., a leader of the progressives' union, will stay in Israel for at least several...
...caused some concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...