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...million) is a constant source of humiliation to Nasser's military junta. It enables Israel to move in and out of the demilitarized border zone of El Auja with impunity, as it did last week, and it gives (to Egyptian ears) an intolerable acidity to Premier-designate Ben-Gurion's statement on the eve of Yom Kippur: "I hope Egypt won't be foolish enough to try to blockade the Gulf of Aqaba against us. We can beat them...
Israel struck oil last week, right on the fringe of the Negeb desert and only six miles from the Gaza strip. Rushing to the spot from Tel Aviv, Premier Designate David Ben-Gurion clambered down into a pit and dug to watch the first flow of the stuff. "Mazel Tov [Congratulations]," he murmured to the drillers. "When can we start to use the stuff?" Development Minister Dov Joseph hurried off by car to the Weizmann Institute of Science 25 miles away with a pop-bottleful to be assayed...
Next day in the wire-enclosed Central Elections Committee headquarters in Jaffa, guarded by a posse of police, the votes were counted. The result showed an un expected drift away from Ben-Gurion's moderate Mapai (Labor) Party, a defeat for the more conservative General Zionists, and a surprising tilt towards the extremists of both sides. Shock-haired Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Premier, who became a shepherd and now has returned to shep herd his people, had acted almost as if the premiership would be his by acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member...
Early this year, Israel's ex-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called upon Judaism to rescind its excommunication of Spinoza and proposed that, as a kind of atonement, the Hebrew University publish the philosopher's complete works two years hence on the 300th anniversary of the famous curse...
Fortunately, there were a few cool-headed men on both sides. One was Pre mier Sharett, who, when he was Foreign Minister, attacked Ben-Gurion for condoning the Kibya massacre (TIME, Oct. 26). Another was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. Glubb offered two Bedouin trackers to assist the blood hounds, and Sharett accepted them. The joint posse worked together for two days until the murderers' spoor petered out in sun-baked rock two miles from Jordan...