Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses in the city and on the hills around are well kept. Both by European and Israeli standards Nablus is a bustling, hard working, largely middle class town. Its inhabitants are no more likely to willingly accept any foreign occupation or loss of autonomy than the inhabitants of Haifa would be. They are just as proud of their achievements and their culture as the Israelis are. Perhaps they are more proud: as Palestinians they feel superior to other Arabs, particularly to those of Trans-Jordan, with whom they became united in 1948 in a rather uncomfortable merger. The Palestinians often...
...Hundreds of miles but only some 24 hours apart, an Israeli and a French submarine were lost in separate, unconnected and equally mysterious disasters. Sinking swiftly to great depths without leaving as much as a trace to guide searchers, Israel's Dakar went down somewhere between Cyprus and Haifa and France's Minerve only about 25 miles from her home berth at Toulon. Their entire crews-69 Israelis and 52 Frenchmen -were lost with them...
...Dakar (swordfish in Hebrew) had just been completely modernized and sold to Israel after 20 years of service in Britain's Royal Navy. She was only three days out of Haifa on her maiden voyage under the Israeli flag when disaster struck without warning or explanation. Hardly had search-and-rescue operations been mounted for the Dakar when next day the Minerve suffered a similar fate during a training exercise. The 850-ton French submarine, commissioned in 1964 and named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, left no more clues to what happened than the Dakar. Ruling out possible...
...younger brother Zarin, an accountant who had immigrated to Montreal via England, to look in occasionally on Carmen and the children (a daughter Zarina, now 9, and a son Merwan, 7). Zarin looked in occasionally, then more often. In 1966 Zubin, who was rehearsing the Israel Philharmonic in Haifa, suddenly announced that he wanted to dedicate the concert to his brother, who was "getting married to a very nice girl." To whom? "To my former wife," Mehta replied. Nowadays, whenever he is in Montreal, he stays with Zarin, Carmen and the children-including now Zarin's daughter, four-month...
Israelis, with their own concentration camp experience still vividly in mind, have been extremely careful victors. As prisoners still qoured in from three different fronts, the Israelis allowed reporters to talk with whomever they wished in a detention camp south of Haifa...