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...Beersheba's Hospital...
...reporting a gift of $1,000,000 by the I.L.G.W.U. to build a new hospital in Beersheba, Israel, we were distressed to read [Jan. 2] that the city of Beersheba "has no hospital." It is my duty to report to you that Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, has been maintaining a hospital in Beersheba since November 1949. It currently has 101 beds, and annually treats more than 5,000 patients, including a substantial percentage of Arabs...
...breakfast cereals. On the land, output rose 23% in 1954. Per capita income is $450, highest in the Middle East. Water now flows through 65 miles of 66-in., Israeli-made pipe to irrigate 50,000 Negev desert acres planted to cotton and grain. Israel has struck oil near Beersheba. Though foreign estimates indicate that Israel will be lucky if the find cuts her present $35 million-a-year petroleum imports by much, the first well is already producing 300 barrels a day for Haifa's refinery. Though foreign firms have not exactly broken down Israel's doors...
...effort, superhuman patience and boundless love." Within a day's walk of Tel Aviv's neon lights are villages where babies are still painted to ward off the evil eye. Said one social worker: "The 20th century is living next to the 10th." In a village near Beersheba, a group of five young Israelis who answered Ben-Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state except the blue sky above. Said the nurse: "They...
...idea for the hospital grew out of a trip Dubinsky made to Israel last June. In Beersheba he was shocked to learn that the city (pop. 22,000) has no hospital, and that whenever a Beersheban needs hospital care he must travel nearly 50 miles to Rehovot, which is more than a quarter of the way to Dan at the other end of the country. Dubinsky came home determined to do something...