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...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...
...latest guest attraction is the Los Angeles Philharmonic's brilliant young conductor Zubin Mehta, who is leading the Israelis through a schedule of 21 concerts over a period of 24 days, shuttling between Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem like a rush-hour commuter. Under Mehta's spirited attack, the orchestra's strings have bloomed into full brilliancy. Though staunchly rooted in the classics, the Israeli audiences received his reading of Bartok's First Piano Concerto, with Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim, as enthusiastically as they do their Brahms. Mehta was equally successful with Ravel's Daphnis...
...corps. She arrives suitably sweaty and distraught, stowed away in a packing case with a power lathe and a corpse. Moments later, her fabulous eye makeup intact, she rackets off to tantalize Finch, soon dons bikini-brief work clothes that scandalize his dedicated kibbutzniks. Her subsequent search leads to Haifa, Damascus, and other Levantine fun spots. Though she occasionally sounds the depths of a woman's revenge, Sophia sticks mainly to Byzantine surface effects. As the farewell gesture of a hollow drama that might have been something more, the young Jewish nation rather incidentally survives the first Arab onslaught...
...leggy El Al stewardess belongs to it, and so does the professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the orange picker in the kibbutz and the housewife in Haifa. Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and most of his Cabinet are card-carrying, dues-paying members. All are enrolled in an extraordinary organization called the Histadrut, Israel's huge and powerful 900,000-member labor federation...