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...from Egypt's borders. He made no mention of Israel's ships passing into the Gulf of Aqaba. And in a week of nationalist celebrations, Egypt permitted the Danish freighter Birgitte Toft, under charter to Israel, to pass through the canal with a cargo of rice for Haifa-the first such ship on Israeli charter to go through Suez since last year's Sinai war. (An Israeli sailor, however, was taken off the ship and held...
...about to send an Israeli ship through the canal to assert its right, and Egypt just as huffily said that the ship would be stopped on the basis of Egypt's right to "self-defense." For more than a month a ship fully loaded has sat in Haifa harbor ready for the testing. For 48 hours last week there was an onrush of international tension. The U.S. announced publicly that it still supported Israel's legal position in Suez, but it has privately counseled Israel to move gradually and to establish a pattern of shipping Israeli goods...
...Israel invaded Egypt three French destroyers protectively patrolled Israel's coast, three squadrons of French fighters and fighter-bombers were at Lydda Airdrome, and a French-not an Israeli-destroyer, the Kersaint, played a leading role in the shelling and capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim Awal off Haifa...
...Jewish Museum, the series will be on view for the last time in Manhattan next week at a reception given by Israeli Minister Mordecai Kidron. Then it will be shipped to Israel (where it will be shown later this year in the museums of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa), along with the stacks of canvases Kovarsky has completed during his five-year stay in New York...
Although this lone stand spawned the prospect of canceled U.S. aid and more austerity at home, Israel was in a state of patriotic excitement unparalleled since Israel's independence was proclaimed in 1948. In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, Israelis paraded by the thousands through the streets in mass protest "against the return of the Egyptian murderers to Gaza." At Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews...