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Most passionately engaged in the debate are Israel's nimbus-haired Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, and three key Jewish organizations. The three...
...complete concert with none of these organizations is Israel's Ben-Gurion. Bred in Czarist Poland, Ben-Gurion cannot understand how any Jew can possibly be happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered...
...rabbis denounced Ben-Gurion's "erroneous" theology; U.S. Zionist and anti-Zionist leaders alike attacked his politics. Ben-Gurion quickly explained that his statement was meant to apply only to practicing Orthodox Jews, who constitute a minority of U.S. Jews. But the damage was done. Off to Israel to pick up the pieces went Ben-Gurion's old friend, the American Jewish Committee's Blaustein. Playing his familiar conciliatory role, Blaustein persuaded Ben-Gurion to reaffirm a joint statement they had issued in 1950. Its key points: Israel may not presume to interfere with the affairs...
...Jerusalem last week, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, temporarily ignoring the Eichmann trial, ordered out his scientific troops for a major assault on Biblical history. Find Israel's first army for me, he told an assembly of his country's leading archaeologists. Dig up the remains of Abraham's band of 318 men who pulled off a nighttime pincer attack at Dan and freed Abraham's nephew Lot from Chedorlaomer, King of the Elamites (Genesis...
...present thought the request unreasonable. They had already dug farther into Israel's past. On display while Ben-Gurion spoke were more than 400 recently found, perfectly preserved, precisely carved artifacts-remnants of a little-known chalcolithic people who predated Abraham by almost 1,500 years. A second expedition of diggers had brought back fresh finds from the reign of Shimon Bar Kochba, self-styled first President of Israel, who led an unsuccessful revolt against Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions...