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...forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options for 26 ships-the largest transaction from a single customer in British history...
Died. Yaakov Dori, 73, leader of the Israeli army that fought for independence in 1948; after a stroke; in Haifa. A refugee from the pogroms of Russia, Dori immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1905, later joined the Jewish Legion serving under British army command in World War I. Discharged in 1921 for fighting Arabs without British approval, he joined the Haganah, an underground Zionist force, and by 1939 had become its commanding officer. When independence was proclaimed in 1948, the Haganah became Israel's official defense force and Dori its first chief of staff...
...rest of Israel is growing almost as rapidly. The present population of 3,100,000 is expected to reach 5,000,000 by the year 2000, and there is not much space to move to. Jerusalem (pop. 291,000) can accommodate few more people, and the port city of Haifa (pop. 217,000) is equally crowded. From the Lebanese border town of Nahariya to Ashkelon in the south, Israel's coastline is becoming an urban sprawl much like the Boston-Washington metropolitan corridor. Israeli planners already refer to their emerging mini-Bos-Wash as NASH...
...penchant for far-left politics, the ring's organizer, Ehud Adiv, 26, seemed almost the personification of the national ideal of a young Israeli. Dreamy-eyed and bushy-haired, Adiv had been born at Can Shmuel (Garden of Samuel), a kibbutz near the Mediterranean coast below Haifa. A paratroop sergeant in the Six-Day War, he had rescued wounded soldiers under fire during the battle for East Jerusalem...
...FRIEDMAN, 28, a bantam weight lifter, was Israel's best hope for a medal. A physical education teacher in a Haifa suburb and a bachelor, Friedman came to Israel in 1960 from Poland...