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...historic Wailing Wall. At last count, the backlog of unsettled disputes totaled a staggering 37,340. One of the few Arab-Israeli compromises: agreement to let a lonely Roman Catholic Trappist monk, one Father Marcel, continue cultivating his vineyards in the no man's land near Tel Aviv...
...noisy minority led by the right-wing Herut Party and the Communists decided to vent it on Strauss. They urged the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to cancel the visit and declare that Strauss was unwelcome. When the Knesset refused, street demonstrations broke out in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. But Ben-Gurion stood firm. When Strauss landed at Tel Aviv-a day late, in hopes of avoiding a scene-his plane was surrounded by scores of police; three bodyguards were posted outside his hotel room. The Bavarian took the commotion in stride. After all, he admitted, "the past lies...
Stop the Singing. To make sure that there will always be ready cash to redeem shares in the fund, one-fifth of it will be invested in U.S. industries. The remainder will be fed gradually, so as not to rock the young Tel Aviv stock market, into Israeli government-held stocks as well as into private insurance, banks, utilities and such land development projects as the nourishing Dead Sea Works (TIME, March 1). The new money, the biggest single block ever to enter Israel, will help to expand growth projects, while charity will continue to cover such ventures...
...attention was riveted to TIME as I rode a bus climbing into the Judean Hills from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You could not have chosen a more appropriate time than Passover to discuss the modern Pharaoh who glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded...
...opening day of what looked to be a drawn-out trial, a Tel Aviv carpenter tearfully recalled that Barenblat's Jewish police once trooped back from a round-up in Bedzin "loudly singing, as if from a victorious engagement." described how they herded Jewish men. women and children into trucks headed for Auschwitz. "Even the streets wept." the witness said. Prosecutor Libai conceded that Barenblat saved "maybe ten or 20 Jews.'' but added: "This court will have to decide whether to save his own soul he was entitled to carry out the tasks of the Jewish police...