Word: haifa
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...cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...
Operation Igloo. From the simple massiveness of Government House in the New City, Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., liberator of Ethiopia, High Commissioner of Palestine, looked out over his capital toward the bustling half-Jewish, half-Arab port of Haifa, 75 miles away. There the long arm of British policy, of which Sir Alan was but the firm hand, wrought its most arresting works last week. There Operation Igloo was in progress...
...preserves as the British moved them to barbed-wire pens aboard British troopships. At the Henrietta Szold, the soldiers threw smoke bombs to quiet the Jews. The Jews tossed them, back. At last the screaming cargoes were embarked. Sympathizers ashore tried to aid them. About a thousand Jews from Haifa defied the British curfew, tried to crash through the barbed wire to the docks. Tommies fired; three Jews were killed, seven more wounded...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
...nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees...