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...Aviv I was told that I would find the occupied West Bank of Jordan poor. One Israeli told me that agriculture was largely unmechanized and therefore backward; that the roads were narrow and bad. He added that the Israelis had now started to improve and widen them. At the Government Tourist Bureau in Tel Aviv I asked how I could get to Nablus, the most prosperous city of the West Bank, some 50 miles from Tel Aviv. I was informed that there was no bus, unless I wanted to travel via Jerusalem. So I went...
...Aviv I had been told the story of an Arab merchant in Nablus who had preferred to close shop rather than cooperate with the Israeli authorities and do business with Jews. He was afraid of revenge by the local population after the return of Arab control. He had a piece of land which he planned to cultivate as soon as his stock ran out. It turns out to be a very uncharacteristic case. There has been general cooperation on the part of the people. Most teachers and civil servants have remained at work. Many of the police have stayed...
...regularity that up till now some 80% of all infiltrators have been killed or captured. The ones who do get through, however, do enough damage to keep Israeli life thoroughly on edge-such as last week's bombing of ; busload of children and even attacks on coastal Tel Aviv. It is an open secret that Asifa has marked Defense Minister Moshe Dayan for assassination and has sent a top agent into Israel to do the job. And, if the organization's leaders are to be believed, they will soon have enough available guerrilla power to stage sustained attacks...
...fancy. But who's to say no when the amateur happens to be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 52, hero of all Israel and avid collector of artifacts for his private backyard museum. So there he was again last week, burrowing into an ancient tomb at Azor, near Tel Aviv, and this dig almost ended in tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders dug him out within a minute, rushed him to a hospital, where he was found to be suffering from...
...last year he said goodbye to Montreal. But he is still a jet-age conductor who hops continents to keep engagements. Besides normal coast-to-coast shuttling, he detours to make recordings and television films, frequently darts off to orchestra podiums and festival halls from London to Tel Aviv. Last spring he led the Los Angeles Philharmonic on a U.S. tour; after each six days of traveling, while his musicians rested for a day, Mehta crisscrossed the nation to conduct a traveling Met production of Turandot in Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland and Atlanta...