Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French people, who are overwhelmingly in support of Israel, were outraged at De Gaulle's cynicism. And they made their displeasure known. Even the usually Gaullist daily, Paris Presse, reported that De Gaulle was being accused of "an acute attack of visceral anti-Americanism, megalomania, soliciting of Arab customers, and sabotage of the Johnson-Kosygin meeting." The editors' conclusion: "Not everything is wrong in these explanations...
...gypsy fiddle. Last week Adler made one of his rare TV appearances, playing his beguiling transcription of the gavotte from Bach's Partita No. 3 for unaccompanied violin on the Mike Douglas Show. And while the taped program was being shown around the U.S., he was already in Israel, entertaining the troops...
...Israel's conquest of Jordanian Jerusalem, which sent thousands of devout Jews to pray in freedom before the historic Wailing Wall for the first time in centuries, has raised an interesting theo logical conundrum. Assuming that Israel keeps the Wall, which is one of the few remaining ruins of Judaism's Second Temple, has the time now come for the erection of the Third Temple...
...descended from David could be found, and if the enemies of Judaism were destroyed. Since Maimonides' time, however, most rabbis have gloomily concluded that the restoration of the Temple would have to wait until the coming of the Messiah. In line with that reasoning, the chief rabbinate of Israel issued a warning after the capture of Jordanian Jerusalem that no Jew should step inside the Temple area...
With the fighting over, copywriters have another job. The war cost Israel, by a preliminary Finance Ministry estimate, "several hundreds of millions of dollars" in mobilization costs, lost matériel, destruction of property and a three-week fall-off in production. To cover these costs and to build up foreign currency reserves, the country is depending in part on a stepped-up drive for tourists. Says Tourism Minister Meir de Shalit, "After repelling the planned Arab invasion of Israel, we are now preparing to welcome the friendly invasion of visitors from all parts of the world." Greece...