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Shabbos Goyim Goats. In Tel Aviv recently, a young Orthodox Israeli went to his rabbi. He had just been offered a good job on the police force, he said, but it would mean that he would have to work on the Sabbath. What should he do? The learned rabbi was silent for some minutes, then he dismissed his visitor. He would send for him, he said, when he had come to his decision. Several weeks passed and the young man heard nothing. Anxiously, he asked the rabbi again for a verdict. The rabbi sighed deeply and looked into his beard...
...itself to give the necessary dispensation to Orthodox Jews. Said one of them last week: "Jews are permitted to work on the Sabbath if the security of the nation is threatened, or to save human life. But a Jew who puts in a trunk call from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv for a girl who wants to wish her boy friend happy birthday would be breaking the Sabbath...
Diplomacy in Israel last week had a sort of Gilbert & Sullivan air about it. The Foreign Ministry was in Jerusalem, the ambassadors were in Tel Aviv, and neither side would visit the other. If Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett wanted to impart important information to Britain or the U.S., he bypassed their emissaries 40 miles away and sent word halfway around the world to his ambassadors to go see the Foreign Office or the State Department. The only direct, official link between the foreign minister and the diplomats was a lone assistant protocol officer left behind in Tel Aviv...
They would not. Led by Britain and the U.S., the diplomats sat firmly in Tel Aviv, contending that the 1949 U.N. resolution recommending Jerusalem's internationalization prevented them from doing anything that would acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The French ambassador, who much prefers Jerusalem's cool heights to raucous Tel Aviv, longed to transfer, but to his request Paris replied: "Coordinate your actions with the U.S. and Britain." The Italian chargé d'affaires responded to Sharett's invitation by offering to buy the Foreign Minister's Tel Aviv house now that...
...Aviv court decision that perpetrators of the Deir Yassin massacre of women and children should receive government pensions is a severe blow to Israeli prestige. Morally, the action was a greater crime than the original massacre, because it came in a period of relative peace, without the pressure of war hysteria or the heat of battle. The court has condemned itself [yet] no people on earth have a longer history of regard for human rights...