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...supply problem involved has long staggered another Jew with some experience in leading his people: Israel's Premier and first Defense Minister, David Ben-Gurion. Last week, while the rest of the world was racked by the summit crisis, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's views on Exodus 12:37 threw the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) into an uproar, a motion of no confidence, and a hassle that continues in the press...
Logistics. Premier Ben-Gurion is no novice Bible scholar; in 1956 he organized a Bible study circle, which included several eminent scholars who met at his house in Jerusalem every other Saturday. Scheduled to speak before the Tel Aviv Journalists' Association on a nonpolitical topic last fortnight, Ben-Gurion happily turned to his longstanding concern about Moses' problem in logistics...
Armed with masses of Biblical quotes, he expounded the theory that Moses had only 600-not 2,000,000 mouths to feed. Recalling a similar argument advanced by Manchester University's retired Professor Harold H. Rowley, Ben-Gurion reasoned as follows: Genesis 46:26 indicates that only 66 people, apart from Joseph and his two sons, went to Egypt. If Menashes' son went too, the total was 70. They stayed in Egypt only three generations, despite Exodus 12:40, which puts their stay at 430 years. Ben-Gurion's reasoning: Levi was known to have had three...
...Heresy! Ben-Gurion himself seemed surprised at the furor that broke when his speech was reported in the Israeli press. Heresy, cried the Orthodox. The Mizrahi Party accused him of attacking the basic beliefs of Judaism. The ultraOrthodox Agudat Israel Party introduced in the Knesset a motion of no confidence...
Nasser moved 2½ to three divisions back to the Sinai frontier, where 5,300 U.N. Emergency Force troops have kept the peace for three years. British and U.S. diplomats questioned the reality of the Arab fears, and Ben-Gurion himself announced that he would shortly leave for a trip to the U.S., as if to show there was no reason for war scares. In the U.S., BenGurion will also seek assurance of American sympathy prior to the summit meeting, when he fears that the U.S. and Russia might compromise Israel in an effort to arrange a Middle East settlement...