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First the government moved some of its smaller departments from the capital of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Then the Knesset (parliament) itself quit the Tel Aviv movie theater where it had been meeting, and moved to Jerusalem, even though Jerusalem is on the fringe of the country. In 1950, the Knesset proclaimed Jerusalem Israel's capital...
...Hebrew poet Bialik greeted the news of the first burglary in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv years ago by thanking God for letting "us live to see this day and hour." Bialik was reflecting the universal Jewish desire to live like other people, to have their own nation, even if it meant having their own criminals...
...people had all the appurtenances of nationhood. It had as many murders last year as metropolitan London, which has six times the population. It had, reputedly, the toughest army in the Middle East. Smartly outfitted Israeli WACs (Chens) and soldiers paraded past the reviewing stand in Tel Aviv and snapped salutes to Israel's triumvirate: stocky Acting President Joseph Sprinzak, shockheaded Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and 35-year-old Yigal Yadin, army chief of staff. In their wake rattled 42 U.S.-built Sherman tanks and 60 British-built half-tracks, while overhead flew three Flying Fortresses and squadrons...
...Point Four aid and Mutual Security Assistance. But now Congress, which had voted as much aid to tiny Israel in 1952 as to all the other Mid-East states combined, seemed disinclined to continue the pace. This week, as the U.S. Government, responding to an emergency plea from Tel Aviv, sped $11 million in economic aid to Israel, the last of the refugee relief funds voted Israel were exhausted...
...Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female...