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...Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz told the nation the bad news in a radio broadcast, riots broke out in the rundown Hatikva section of Tel Aviv. For three nights mobs of hundreds of people roamed through the streets stoning cars and policemen and looting shops. Orderly demonstrations took place in Haifa, at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, and in Ashdod. More ominous for the government than the demonstrations was the action of the 1,100,000-member General Federation of Labor. Despite entreaties from the government, it demanded that workers be fully compensated for loss of income, an action...
...tragedy in Palestine is real; I believe that with luck, determination and more political sagacity than they have shown heretofore the Palestinians will get their state. But no one who sees them as indirect victims of Hitler is doing them a real service. Alfred A. Greenbaum '50 University of Haifa...
...missile boats anchored under cover of night off the Lebanese ports of Tyre, Sidon and Sarafand. An elite crew of frogmen carrying timed explosives swam the two miles to shore and blew up 21 or more Lebanese fishing vessels. A few hours later, the boats sped safely back to Haifa...
...Knesset in order to present a no-confidence motion. Twice before, under similar attacks, Dayan had gone to Mrs. Meir and offered to resign. Both times she refused. Last week, when he made the same gesture, she was ominously noncommittal. Chatting with Mrs. Meir at a Labor meeting, Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi commented: "You realize that it won't end with Dayan. They're really aiming at you." Replied the Premier caustically: "You're telling...
...home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when you've got three kids and a pregnant wife." Said a bank clerk from Haifa: "You can't depend on the Arabs, but we've had war, war, war It's been that way since Moses left Egypt. And here we are, leaving Egypt again...