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When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
...entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...
...Aviv (Hill of Spring) became the first all-Jewish city. One out of four Jews went to farms. Colonists of every political shading organized settlements-the Moshavah, middle-class farm villages where all own their own property; the Moshav, cooperatives where farmers work their own farms, leased from the Jewish National Fund; the Kvutzah, collective colonies where all work under orders of a central committee, and no one owns any personal property; the Kibbutz, workers' communes, including industrial workers as well as farmers, who turn their earnings into a common fund...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...
First big find was an underground trove in a locked room beneath the Great Synagogue, largest in Palestine. Watched by Tel-Aviv's Jewish mayor, this cache yielded counterfeiting equipment and $800,000 in forged bonds; a radio transmitter; weapons and ammunition, mixed up with bedding and religious literature. Elsewhere the searchers found homemade bombs, grenades, Bangalore torpedoes, and military training manuals...