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...single issue had Israelis been so fiercely unanimous as on the kibbutz galuyoth-the ingathering of the exiles. Immediately after independence, the very first act of the new state was to declare immigration wide open. A year ago, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Israel's George Washington, said flatly: "It was for mass immigration that the state was established, and by virtue of this alone that it will stand...
...Premier Ben-Gurion and his government [were] ready to make an initial contribution of a million Israel pounds ($2,800,000) toward relief of Arab refugees, but that cannot be done without setting up some kind of framework in which to deal with the Arab countries. This the Arabs refuse...
David Ben-Gurion, who carries beneath the wild halo of his white hair great visions but little patience for political compromise, has ruled the country with difficulty. To satisfy the Jewish Orthodox bloc in his cabinet he accepted the virtual prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held...
...splinter groups as the Progressives (four seats), the pro-Mapai Arabs (five seats), the Mizrachi Religious Workers (eight seats), the Yemenites (one seat). Joined with them, B.G.'s Mapai could command a bare hold on the Parliament. In that case, Israel stood in danger of becoming, in Ben-Gurion's own phrase, "a second France without a stable government...
Manhattan's official greeter Grover Whalen turned in expense accounts for two recent civic receptions. The tab for General Douglas MacArthur's welcome came to $23,467; the one for Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...