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After two days of listening to these and other complaints, Dulles will go to Jerusalem to be received by frankly apprehensive Israelis. An official of Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party said last week: "During the Truman regime, we were our rich uncle's favorite Middle East nephew. Now there are eight favorites-all of them more favorite than Israel...
...leftist government of David Ben-Gurion had just proclaimed a new devaluation-the second in 13 months. The government did not call it that, but, in simple fact, the Israeli pound, once pegged at $2.80 (and devalued last year to $1.40 for tourists, $1 for investors), has been devalued still further to a straight $1. (Even that figure is not realistic enough: the unsentimental Zurich money market values Israel's pound...
...firing of a Soviet bookshop in Jerusalem; a hand-grenade explosion at the Czech legation). This is as bad as the assassination of Count Bernadotte," said a civil servant. Will our people never learn?" Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett rushed a fervent apology to Moscow. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion cut short a vacation to lay the matter before the Knesset. "An abomination was committed by hooligans last night " he stormed. "If self-styled Jewish patriotism was the motive for their foul deed and if their intention was to fight for the honor of Israel, then let me say that...
Last week the fruits of Davidson's enthusiasm went on view in Manhattan. Standouts were his bust of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking like a resolute sailor in a storm, and a bronze head of Israel's President Chaim Weizmann. Shortly after the creation of that small but eloquent monument to the eternity of life, both Weizmann and Davidson himself died...
Although many normally observant Jews, driven by the meat shortage, were eating pork, most of them felt uneasy about it. Said Legislator David Ha'Cohen, a member of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's party: "I don't keep a kosher kitchen in my home, but to see Jews ordering pork chops in butchers' shops licensed by the Jewish state hurts something deep inside...