Word: golan
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...Canal. Elsewhere settlers have moved fast, and they are thinking far ahead. At coralline Sharm el Sheikh, now renamed Ophira, they are building hotels and planning still others to accommodate tourists. Hard-topped roads make access far easier than it was in 1967. At a new kibbutz on the Golan Heights, British-born Frank Donnel points to the freshly planted grass and trees. "Another ten years and you won't recognize the place," he says...
...places the border is still deadly violent. Near Ein Zivan on the Golan Heights, a 31-year-old reservist was killed shortly after my visit. Rockets fired from Syria hit a car in which he had thumbed a ride. Strangely, no one else was even injured. Near "Fatahland," where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria converge and Palestinian guerrillas are still active, highway signs include notices that TRAVELING AT NIGHT is FORBIDDEN. In the farming village of Metulla, which has lost two men killed and five wounded in fedayeen attacks from Lebanon, Mayor Assaf Frankel wistfully said: "I hope...
Many of the 5,000 guerrillas estimated to have been in the area retreated into the wooded borderlands near Syria. Soon fighting shifted to Syria's Golan Heights, overlooking Israel. For the first time in 21 months, in support of ground fighters, obsolescent Syrian MIG-17s either strafed Israeli positions, as Damascus had it, or dumped their bombs in a field, as the Israelis reported. The fighting was brief; with its capital of Damascus dangerously close to the present ceasefire line-only 30 miles separated them -Syria has good reason not to let such battles escalate. Even...
Despite their importance to Israel or the Arabs, the world finds it difficult to excite itself unduly about the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the wastes of Sinai or even the fertile lands of the Jordan's West Bank. But Jerusalem, symbol of monotheism to East and West, a city steeped in history and mysticism, renowned in literature and poetry-that is another matter entirely. Nowhere else in the world can be found such a concentration of religious shrines of importance to so many people. The main objective of Israeli troops in June 1967 was the Wailing Wall, a surviving...
...talking over their field radios in Serbo-Croatian. Bar-Lev, a tank man, refined the Israeli army's blitzkrieg tactics as chief of the armored corps between 1957 and 1961. That task was continued by his successor in the post, Elazar, who later led the attack on the Golan Heights during...