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...GIVE TO ISRAEL TILL IT HURTS." Israel is the great new fact of Jewish existence. Since 1948, American Jews have poured about a billion and a half dollars into the new state, although only a few thousand have answered ex-Premier Ben-Gurion's call to become Israeli citizens. Israelis are sometimes skeptical of such vicarious participation in their pioneering and have been known to call their American brethren "alimony Jews"-willing to pay but not to live with it. The emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige...
Forgotten Experts. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard called a Cabinet meeting to discuss Nasser's possible motives for flouting Bonn. They were already well known and centered on a 1960 meeting at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between then Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israel's then Premier David Ben-Gurion. Adenauer, always sensitive about Germany's former crimes against the Jews, arranged to hand over $70 million worth of military equipment to Israel, with the approval-and possibly the urging-of Washington. The operation was so secret that Bonn's Foreign Ministry only discovered it by accident late...
...into organizing industrial workers, building factories and financing housing developments. From the start it was meant to be far more than a labor organization: it was an association of Jews formed to create the State of Israel and provide it with a viable economy. Former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, himself Histadrut secretary general from 1921 to 1935, described it as an "alliance of pioneers of a homeland, founders of a state, creators of a nation, builders of an economy, disseminators of a culture...
...Convention Hall was jammed to its 3,000-seat capacity and, said an official, "We could have sold out the hall five times over." It was time for the third International Bible Quiz, a triennial event that has become an international institution in the land of Benjamin and Ben-Gurion...
Married. Dorian Leigh, 44, queen of U.S. fashion models until she passed the scepter to her younger sister, Suzy Parker; and Iddo Ben-Gurion, sometime playwright, no kin to Israel's former Premier; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Paris...