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TIME'S Letters Department recently received a letter from Reader Israel Efrati of Haifa, Israel. "I must admit that I don't take much interest in music," he wrote, "especially the heavy side of it. But, liking your magazine and the way it puts the information in front of the reader, I never miss a single column. I had my reward this week when I unexpectedly discovered something I have spent years looking for." The discovery was the mention of a concertmaster by the name of Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name...
...said to myself: 'Ahmed, you are meant to be more than an engineer.' " In World War I, he set up a contracting business of his own, landed big contracts with the British army in Damascus, picked up other odd jobs in Beirut, Bagdad and Haifa. Back in Egypt after the war, Abboud decided to buck the foreign businessmen who then monopolized the nation's industry. Starting with two British companies which handled all the dredging of Egypt's irrigation canals, Abboud badgered government authorities until they gave him some of this work. In six months...
...regional boycott of their products and allow them to cut down their standing army. Ben-Gurion assured a reporter that Israel is willing to guarantee its existing Arab frontiers "for 100 years." The government is said to be willing to make minor border concessions, and to open Haifa as a free port, but not to turn its part of Jerusalem over for internationalization or to readmit Arab refugees in large numbers...
...children killed in a Nazi concentration camp, comes to Israel in 1949 as a D.P. His unreasoned fear of authority leads him to strike a policeman who asks for his identification papers. Thinking he has killed the policeman, he runs away in a panic. His journey takes him from Haifa to the Syrian border, where he finally finds physical and emotional haven on a kibbutz (collective farm...
...Jerusalem last week, Violinist Jascha Heifetz once more ignored Israeli threats and warnings, played a work by the late German Composer Richard Strauss, just as he had done in Haifa and Tel Aviv (TIME, April 20). Moments after the concert, in front of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, a hooligan stepped up to Heifetz, struck him a blow on his right hand with an iron bar, and ran. The same evening, with an aching bow hand, Heifetz played the fourth concert of his Israel tour to heavy applause (Strauss was not scheduled). Then he called off his final concert...