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...Cairo by the Stern Gang, which also assassinated Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, the U.N. mediator in Palestine, in 1948. The most infamous act of all was the murder by the Irgun and Stern Gang of 254 Arabs in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. David Ben-Gurion's Haganah, the largest of the Jewish fighting groups at the time, was never guilty of such acts, but it did cooperate for long periods with both the Irgun and the Stern Gang...
...Yehoshua Rabinowitz told the nation the bad news in a radio broadcast, riots broke out in the rundown Hatikva section of Tel Aviv. For three nights mobs of hundreds of people roamed through the streets stoning cars and policemen and looting shops. Orderly demonstrations took place in Haifa, at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, and in Ashdod. More ominous for the government than the demonstrations was the action of the 1,100,000-member General Federation of Labor. Despite entreaties from the government, it demanded that workers be fully compensated for loss of income, an action that would...
...Israel, Kissinger's plane was scheduled to land at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport a half-hour before the Jewish Sabbath was over. Israeli protocol officers advised the blue and white jet to circle somewhere until the holy day officially ended...
...Palestine, where he edited the labor movement newspaper Davar. Poet, historian and compelling orator, he helped write Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 and served as the new state's first Education Minister before assuming -as a "man without enemies," in Premier David Ben-Gurion's phrase-the primarily ceremonial presidency. More traditional a Jew than many Zionist leaders, Shazar regularly played host to fellow Bible researchers at his official residence and was an active devotee of the joyous Hasidic movement...
...fined $10,000 for violating the U.S. arms embargo to Palestine. The smuggling helped create the Israeli Air Force, in which Schwimmer served as its first chief engineer. After the war, he set up his own aircraft servicing business in Burbank, Calif., but David Ben-Gurion persuaded him to return to organize what eventually became I.A.I. Says Schwimmer: "Ben-Gurion did not know a screw driver from a slide rule, but he had a vision of what the state would need. It was apparent from the beginning that the security situation demanded that we produce our own arms." Since I.A.I...