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When rabbis throughout Israel protested, government pork sales were discontinued, but the administration of Socialist Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion insisted that there was nothing wrong with selling pork on the free market. With a go-ahead sign like that, the owners of Israel's 30-odd pig farms began to sell their swine. Restaurant customers soon found their drab diet of cod fillets varied by the introduction of pork cutlets at $2.80 a portion, and housewives were able to purchase some nice cuts...
...zealot of the left, David Ben-Gurion, the shock-haired dynamo who is Premier of Israel, used to promise full-fledged socialism in Israel "in my lifetime." Each trying, hard-won year of the new republic, however, has found B-G preaching less socialism and seeking more capitalism. Last year his Mapai (Labor) Party was urged to form a stable, powerful cabinet with the free-enterprising General Zionists (Israel's No. 2 party). B-G cried "heresy." Never, said he, could his democratic, planned-economy socialists unite with such exploiters. Privately, B-G had another concern. He feared that...
...Oren and Shlomo Orenstein, who had been arrested many months ago while passing through Prague, were brought forth at the trial as witnesses and testified against the "Zionists." Orenstein said he knew of a plot hatched in 1947 by Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and Henry Morgenthau, with David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett of Israel, to plant Israeli spies in the Communist Balkans in return for U.S. favors to Israel...
...idea caught on: perhaps Israel might get a second president as big as the first. Quipped a government statistician: "He might even be able to work out the mathematics of our economy and make sense out of it." To peppery Premier David Ben-Gurion, who loves learning and knows, moreover, the value of an imposing name, the idea sounded fine. While Israel's President has only small powers at home, abroad he could be an important symbol of a struggling new state which needs both aid and sympathy. Characteristically, without bothering to consult either his cabinet or party...
...puzzled aide pointed out that after all it was only a handkerchief. "You don't understand," replied Weizmann. "My handkerchief is terribly important to me. It's the only thing in the country I can stick my nose into. Into everything else, it's Ben-Gurion's nose...