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When Premier David Ben-Gurion set out to draft women into the Israel army four years ago, extremist leaders forced him to exempt Orthodox girls. Soon 30% of all girls called up blithely claimed to be Orthodox. Last year Ben-Gurion wrote a new bill which would draft Orthodox girls for work on farms, in hospitals and in immigrant camps, instead of the army. The new bill would not force ultra-Orthodox girls to wear the "unmaidenly" Israeli women's army uniforms, and would let them return to their own homes at night. Moreover, they would not be controlled...
...Defense Ministry had rejected their requests, ruling that their wounds had not been suffered in "organized action against Arab bands or invaders." The Tel Aviv court decided otherwise, held that the Deir Yassin attack (but not the massacre) was, in fact, an organized action, and commanded the reluctant Ben-Gurion government to pay the pensions. The news rated hardly an inside paragraph in Israeli newspapers but was bitterly received in the Arab world...
...Aviv, Mistress Sharett prodded anxiously at the roast of beef (frozen), which she feared might not be tender enough for the Foreign Minister's official dinner that night; in Jerusalem, Mistress Ben-Gurion summoned the sentry outside her home to help her tear the skin off a monster halibut (also frozen), which she wanted to steam with lemon sauce for the Secretary's lunch with the Premier next...
Dulles stayed in Israel two days, listened to anxiously presented analyses, promised nothing. At his departure, "Premier David Ben-Gurion (who showed how important he thought the occasion was by abandoning his open-necked shirt for a gabardine suit and patterned necktie) handed the Secretary a new Hebrew Testament, the first ever printed in Jerusalem...
...Israelis say they are eager for an Arab peace that would end the regional boycott of their products and allow them to cut down their standing army. Ben-Gurion assured a reporter that Israel is willing to guarantee its existing Arab frontiers "for 100 years." The government is said to be willing to make minor border concessions, and to open Haifa as a free port, but not to turn its part of Jerusalem over for internationalization or to readmit Arab refugees in large numbers...