Word: israel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shepherd of Israel." This year, because the Rev. Ben H. Cleaver is only able to serve on alternate Sundays, the farm folk of the congregation went to Christmas services a week early...
...Prophet Micah in the Old Testament called Bethlehem small compared with other towns; but it had a notable history, even before his prophecy that from it would come 'The Shepherd of Israel' . . . The wise men of Matthew's account may have been reluctant to leave the capital city, Jerusalem, at the direction of the scribes, and journey eight miles further to this modest village. But though they left Herod and his palace behind them, they went on and found indeed the genuine Prince of the House of David...
...foreseen, Israel bitterly defied the U.N. action. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett announced that his government would never give up Jerusalem: "To the Jewish people [Jerusalem] has been and is the very heart-the symbol of its past glory, the lodestar in its wanderings . . ." Jerusalem's Israeli Mayor Daniel Auster warned: "We shall stand at the city's gates to keep out any pretenders." A spokesman in Tel Aviv threatened passive resistance: "I don't know if a U.N. governor will find a house to work in. If he does and sets about establishing public services...
...Holy Places. In spite of its truculent attitude toward U.N., Israel went ahead with preparations to receive pilgrims. On the Israel side visitors will see such Christian shrines as the Dormition of Mary on Mount Zion, the Cenacle where the Last Supper was spread, the Ein Karim home of John the Baptist, and Nazareth...
...Israell statesman declared today in San Francisco that the United Nations' plan to internationalize Jerusalem is "foredoomed to futility." "Jerusalem," said Eliahu Elath, Israeli ambassador to the United States, "is an integral part of Israel and cannot be severed, neutralized, or separated in any way from the state...