Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she stepped ashore in Haifa, she wept. Feige Fried's mother, seven brothers and sisters would never know Palestine's freedom. They had disappeared into the Nazi crematorium at Oswiecim; Feige escaped...
...most probable "developments": the pipeline may be resurrected as a project of U.S. oil companies with concessions in oil-rich Arabia. The U.S. would lend them an estimated $130-165 million to build the line from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, probably to Haifa in Palestine...
Lawrence of. ... Wingate made his name in strange operations. Given the job of catching the Arab marauders who in 1937 were regularly cutting the Haifa-Mosul oil line, he mixed Jewish and British patrols, beat the Arabs at their own game of ambush, won the title of "Lawrence of Judea" (which his cousin, who fought for the Arabs, might have resented). In 1941, in the British campaign against the Italians in Ethiopia, Wingate directed a strategy of bluff, propaganda and native revolt. With 1,000 Sudanese and 2,000 Ethiopians, he effectively snarled up some 40,000 Italians...
Just before midnight, the dread Hagana struck.* In ultramodern Tel Aviv, hallowed Jerusalem, bustling Haifa and old Jaffa the outlawed Jewish terrorists attacked British police stations, exploded bombs, fought running gun battles. When the violence waned, six British policemen lay dead, a dozen injured...
Palestine's peaceable Jewish majority promptly condemned the outrages, talked of vigilante drives against the outlaws. Palestine's British High Commissioner promptly took action: for Tel Aviv and the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa, a twelve-hour daily curfew beginning at 5 p.m.; for sabotage and terror, the death penalty. Palestine, home of half a million Jews and a million Arabs, already one of the world's most thoroughly policed lands, now felt more heavily than ever the tread of law & order...