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Israel was the victim of the week's most spectacular raid, a strike at its oil installations at Haifa, the country's chief seaport. In the early morning, a lone Palestinian fedayeen crept up to a complex of eight pipelines carrying oil from the Haifa refinery to dockside and placed three pounds of explosives under a manifold. The resulting blast knocked three of the pipelines temporarily out of commission and started a fire that destroyed 1,500 tons of refined oil. It was the most spectacular act of Arab sabotage since the June...
...HAIFA, Israel--Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Sunday that the Big Four talks to promote an Arab-Israeli settlement grew out of "a fiction that the Middle East is burning...
...Haifa, Israel...
...second major problem is the laws governing the Sabbath. All stores and most restaurants and places of entertainment are closed, and, except in Haifa, public transportation is completely shut down...
...Deborah's troops charged down the mountainside to annihilate the Canaanite army. The tactic of luring an enemy into a trap that favors the defense, Gale says, is fundamentally the same maneuver employed by Wellington at Waterloo and by Viscount Montgomery in his victory over Rommel at Alam Haifa...