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...Aviv, Palestine's modern all-Jewish city, streets are customarily named after Zionist heroes (Theodor Herzl, Baron Rothschild, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, etc.). Last week, when the city fathers pondered street names for a new suburb, a councilman suggested: Why not name the streets after the Ten Commandments...
Constantly in touch by radio, the underground of Tel Aviv dot-dashed the plan to the ship. The refugee radio operator, who could not speak English, painfully deciphered the messages in his Webster. The plan: a fleet of small boats would go out to meet the ship and would then put ashore refugees over a wide area of the coast in an "assault landing." Underground terrorists, who had ceased their attacks throughout Palestine for nearly a week, were ready to hold off police during the landing...
...overlooking the teeming beach was jammed with Sabbath idlers sipping blood-red gazoz, Tel Aviv's favorite syrup-and-soda drink. One youth sat quietly alone, smoking cigarets and drinking thick Turkish coffee. Two men approached his table, murmured "Shalom" (Peace), the traditional Jewish greeting. "Shalom," the youth replied. The two sat down...
...desert wastes of Egypt and southern Palestine, and finally catches a glimpse of the ordered green of a Jewish agricultural settlement. Contrast is your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back the desert; an Arab fellah hurrying his sheep to the side of the road to let a convey of British tanks...
...Aviv, on the other hand, is like a growing child that is bursting his breeches. All the intensity and vigor that symbolize the new Palestine are found in Tel Aviv. It is the throbbing pulse, cultural and commercial, social and political of the Yishuv, or Jewish Community in Palestine. They don't call it Palestine in Tel Aviv: It's "Ereta Visrael," the Land of Israel, or more simply. Arets, the Land...