Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haifa, Israel...
...Israelis had surrounded Gaza so quickly that few soldiers or civilians had a chance to escape. General Moshe Goren and his military-government staff first had to disband all enemy units and ferret out potential terrorists, sending the most dangerous ones to the Athlit P.O.W. camp south of Haifa. Then he turned to the task of supplying food and water to the abysmally poor people-mostly jobless Palestinian refugees who had been living on the U.N. food dole of 1,500 calories a day. Last week the U.N. resumed feeding them, and Goren made Gaza's Egyptian pound exchangeable...
...counseled the Israelis not to test the blockade, and Israel decided for the time being to keep its ships out of the Gulf of Aqaba. It could still import oil from Western Europe and the U.S. through its major Mediterranean port of Haifa, which also happens to be the center of its oil refining industry. Israel thus can live for a while with the blockade-but only for a while. Some ships bearing goods to Israel have already sailed for Elath. If Nasser is adamant about turning back Israeli ships, the U.S. and Britain (both of which had naval task...
...over Israel last week looked like the setting for a horror movie. In B'nai Brak, near Tel Aviv, 20,000 demonstrators in somber black coats and black hats paraded with banners proclaiming: "Don't cut us up." Posters inside synagogues in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa explained how to prevent hospital attendants from spiriting away the dead: "Stay beside the body every moment." Splashed in white paint across the road near Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center was the warning: "Barbaric autopsies must stop...
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Discovery Goes to Israel" for a tour of the port city of Haifa and a look into family life in Rama, an Arab village 30 miles to the north...