Word: ben-gurion
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...imprisonment sentence for wartime espionage on behalf of Russia, New York Psychiatrist Robert Soblen, 61, jumped $100,000 bail and fled to Israel, using a dead brother's Canadian passport to gain entry. A Lithuanian-born Jew, Soblen expected Israel to let him stay, but Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion bent to U.S. pressures and arranged to send Soblen back in the general direction of the U.S. aboard a flight of the government-controlled airline, El Al. As a result of covert but obvious cooperation between U.S. and Israeli authorities, Soblen was accompanied on the flight by one James...
...Israel, meanwhile, the repercussions of the Soblen affair had shaken the Ben-Gurion government. Many Israelis, including chieftains of two parties who were members of Ben-Gurion's wobbly coalition, insisted that the government could not legally send Soblen back to the U.S. Israel has no extradition treaty with the U.S., and even if it did have, political crimes such as espionage are not considered grounds for extradition. In self-defense, Ben-Gurion insisted that his government did not deport Soblen to the U.S., but merely expelled him from Israel. He was free to get off the plane...
...many Algerian towns, Moslems have stopped patronizing Jewish-owned movie houses. In the streets of Djelfa, Moslem children chant: "Ben-Gurion to the gallows, Ben Bella to the palace." In the last 18 months, entire communities of Arabized Jews from the Sahara, whose speech and dress are indistinguishable from their Moslem neighbors, have left the country...
...declaring: "American Jews believe they will survive as a group in a country which is traditionally a nation of groups. Those who do not accept these facts will never succeed in understanding the uniqueness of American Jewry." Unwilling to accept this claim was Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion, who has often declared that Jews, wherever they might be in the world, owe their first allegiance to Israel. American Jews, he predicted, will be swallowed up as the U.S. evolves into an integrated nation in the next ten to 50 years. "The focus of Jewish life throughout the world...
...busy nine days, he chatted with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ("Why must girls serve in the Israeli army?"), secured the key to Nazareth and a silver-embossed Bible, broke ground for the Frank Sinatra International Friendship Youth House ("I never thought a school would be named for me"), held gracious receptions and swung through nine concerts. By week's end, his voice was scratchy and tired, and he set off for a seven-day cruise to the Isle of Rhodes on a chartered yacht before his next round of appearances in Greece and Italy...