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...chin as a compromise with the Moslem custom she had always known, crouched silently for 30 hours on a Jerusalem street corner, spellbound by the goings-on in her new homeland. To make the newcomers feel at home, villagers at two new settlements, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, performed Kurdish and Arab dances instead of the Jewish ones...
Died. Rabbi Zvi Rabinsohn, 88, father of Communist Boss Ana Pauker of Rumania ; after long illness; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fanatically Orthodox himself, he brought his ungainly daughter up strictly, left Rumania for Israel after the Reds (aided by Ana) took over, never saw Ana again...
When the new government lessened the tax load on foreigners in March 1950, adventurous U.S. investors put $15 million into the new nation. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. is putting up a $2,500,000 auto plant in the Haifa Bay area; Philco Corp. has built a refrigerator plant near Tel Aviv; General Shoe Corp. and General Tire & Rubber Co. each has a factory...
...They included Jerzy Gliksman, brother of the Polish Socialist Victor Alter, who was executed by the NKVD in 1941; Margarete Buber-Neumann, author of Under Two Dictators (TIME, Jan. 15), whom the Bolsheviks jailed in Russia in 1938, then turned over to the Nazis in 1940; Julius Margolin, Tel Aviv philosophy student who traveled to France to tell the court about his six years in Soviet durance...
This week, as President Reed set sail for a European inspection tour himself, he was brightly optimistic about his company's next 100 years. Having opened up eleven new branches in 1949, he is now planning new offices in Cannes, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Okinawa and Oberammergau. "The quickest way for other nations to earn U.S. dollars," says Reed, "is to attract U.S. tourists. Because most countries understand that now, I think 1950 will be our best year ever...