Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania's 350,000 Jews (the largest Jewish community in any satellite) had poured through Haifa into the great adventure...
Last week, five years later almost to the day, 69 of Rumania's emigrant Jews returned to Haifa, reboarded a steamer and started back to Rumania. They were the vanguard of an exodus of 2,000. The number was comparatively small, but the fact of their leaving was disquieting...
...silence, then his comrades begged him to reconsider. But B-G sat still and unmoving. A woman rose; she had lost two sons in the war to establish Israel. "If I gave my sons to the nation," she demanded, "how can you consider abandoning it?" His followers in Socialist Haifa angrily threatened to walk out on strike "unless the Premier stayed at his post...
TIME'S Letters Department recently received a letter from Reader Israel Efrati of Haifa, Israel. "I must admit that I don't take much interest in music," he wrote, "especially the heavy side of it. But, liking your magazine and the way it puts the information in front of the reader, I never miss a single column. I had my reward this week when I unexpectedly discovered something I have spent years looking for." The discovery was the mention of a concertmaster by the name of Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name...
...Israel: a $3,000,000 wharf project at Haifa...