Word: israelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel half a mile away, fields once worked by Arabs. The crowds below were shouting: "King Hussein, our leader, our leader." But mingled...
Something for All. Such coups have kept Quadros on the front pages ever since he left for Japan last March. Brazil's newspapers sent their top men to catch Quadros in Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe. Quadros missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when...
...Among the top-ranking Xegro villains of the Moslems and African Nationalist fringe groups: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who won a Nobel Prize for making peace between Israel and the Arabs, hence is condemned as "the George Washington of Israel...
...rabbi also laid the cornerstones for several major Hasidic projects in Israel, including a new five-story rabbinical-study center, a new housing project near Tel Aviv, an old people's home. Perhaps his most dramatic operation concerns Tel Aviv's long-embattled public swimming pool, which the Hasidim consider an outrage because it permits mixed bathing. Teitelbaum and his backers are trying to buy the pool from the two collectives that own it, are reported ready to offer $140,000. If the offer is turned down, Teitelbaum will order mass demonstrations by his followers. Says...
Died. Isaac Halevi Herzog, 71, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, who served 21 years as a rabbi in Ireland (Chief Rabbi: 1925-36), where he acquired a slight brogue and a love of things Irish, was elected (1936) Palestine's Chief Rabbi from which post he worked for the creation of Israel and sustained the morale of his people during the dark days of the Arab war, wrote a five-volume study: The Main Institutions of Jewish Law; in Jerusalem...