Word: avive
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...just after dusk, and 46 skull-capped youngsters stood at their evening prayers in the synagogue of the Shafrir village farm school just outside Tel Aviv. They prayed: "If any design evil against me, speedily make their counsel of no effect and frustrate their designs. Do it for the sake...
...Philistines, and threw two grenades into a house packed with Yemenites gathered to celebrate the engagement of a young couple. An old woman was killed as she cradled in her arms her year-old grandson, who was unhurt. Another group of terrorists ambushed a bus on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, wounding six. One fedayee returned to Gaza to tell Egyptian newsmen how his team was surrounded by Israelis after blowing up a power station. "We heard voices calling: 'Surrender, donkeys.' We threw our grenades. We did not surrender, but they surrendered their lives...
Married. Renana Ben-Gurion, 30, second daughter of Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion; and David Leshem, 32. engineer; in Tel Aviv...
...wanted Jordan, which has not enough money to build its own roads, to equip itself with a first-class jet air force. Once he turned to senior officers and asked: "Why can't we attack? If there's a war, let's march on Tel Aviv." General Glubb patiently took him on a tour of the 350-mile Israeli frontier to show him how much the Legion's 20,000 men had to defend against Israel's 250,000-man army...
Along the Arab-Israeli border, gangs of workers went on shoveling ditches for pipes to water new fields in the Negev, while soldiers dug out gun emplacements, trenches and foxholes. Troops joined with raw settlers from Morocco and Kurdistan to turn farm communities into flimsy fortresses. In Tel Aviv thousands of white-collar workers left their desks and went to the borders to help dig defenses. At the annual convention of the powerful Israeli General Federation of Labor (Histadrut), there were no ringing calls to arms in the labor leaders' speeches. "I prefer even this miserable peace to either...