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...came under bombardment and that one of them had reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown. Finally, after weeks of secret negotiations, Israel took the first step: it freed 1,100 Palestinians, most of whom had been held at the Ansar prison camp in southern Lebanon, and flew them to Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, from which Air France jetliners carried them on to Algeria...
...stocky man with a halo of electric white hair, dressed in a light blue suit and tie and white shirt, fiddled nervously with his glasses and papers, looked frequently at his watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept...
...minutes to 8 on Saturday night-the evening arrival was carefully chosen so as not to violate the Jewish Sabbath-the Egyptian white Boeing 707, its red trim glistening under klieg lights, rolled to a stop at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Israeli army trumpeters blared out a welcoming fanfare. As thousands of Israelis waved their newly purchased red-white-and-black Egyptian flags, out stepped President Anwar Sadat on a "sacred mission"-to speak directly to the people of Israel about peace...
...other modern appliances." Few visitors to Israel would dispute that glowing report, which came from an American tourist in a letter to the Jerusalem Post. Highways are flooded with new cars. Shop windows are filled with food processors, freezers and videocassette recorders. At Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, long queues of vacation-bound Israelis wait to board flights for Europe and the U.S. Despite more than three decades of costly conflict with its Arab neighbors, Israel enjoys a standard of living that ranks near that of many West European nations...
...vote by Israel's Cabinet early last week to dissolve El Al, the country's national airline, sparked the most shocking labor confrontation of many in the carrier's strife-torn history. On Tuesday hundreds of protesting El Al workers stormed the Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. The demonstrators flattened tires on the cars of El Al officials, ransacked the airline's offices, roughed up newsmen and burned effigies of the members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government while shouting, "Begin ben zonah [Begin is an s.o.b...