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...victorious Israeli army. Jews-most of them refugees from Europe themselves-have taken over the Arabs' communities, where they now work Arab land, live in Arab houses and even use Arab cooking utensils. One such community is Akir, a village on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which TIME Correspondent John Luter visited last week. Here is Luter's report...
...Arab refugees* still had to be settled. Israel's other Arab neighbors, Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan, must be satisfied, and Syria, in particular, was showing signs of unabated bitterness. But the confident Israeli were not expecting trouble from anyone. A quip going the rounds of Tel Aviv last week: "Armistice applications accepted only during business hours...
...Their Entire Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told...
Women in Purdah. Israel's first election campaign rumbled along in good ward-political style. Politicians fought each other tooth & nail for the limited campaign facilities. Parties accused each other of renting all the public halls in Tel Aviv although they had no intention of actually using them; one party was accused of trying to catch the Rumanian immigrant vote by leasing Tel Aviv's only Rumanian printing press...
...Egyptians threw in the sponge. The two-week campaign, by Israeli claims, had cost the Egyptians 2,500 casualties (including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...