Word: beersheba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist propaganda makes it out to be, and it calls attention to the breadth and depth of the U.S.'s concern with the people of other lands. Last week David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, announced a handsome gift for the citizens of Beersheba, Israel: a cool $1,000,000 to build a hospital, the city's first...
...dawn one day last week, a bus pulled out of the stockade at Elath, Israel's southernmost outpost and single Red Sea port. It headed north into the Negeb desert, toward Beersheba and civilization, wheezing and jogging for hours through the cratered wasteland that comprises half of Israel. The 15 passengers chatted and compared souvenirs. Outside, vultures wheeled in the pale...
...reached treacherous Scorpion's Pass, 60 miles south of Beersheba, and started up the grade like a clumsy beetle. As it neared a stone monument, erected to honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent...
...calling on others to live justly, will not look for fault in his neighbour. But he will practice his faith in his daily life-he will live it." Next week Ben-Gurion will begin living his as a sheep-farmer in the desert settlement of Sde Boker, near Beersheba...
Sixty-mile-an-hour gales shredded tents from Dan to Beersheba, tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...