Word: israelities
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Nasser's deal with Communist Czechoslovakia (see below) involved more than jet planes, tanks, and heavy artillery to upset the carefully fostered balance of arms the West had maintained between Egypt and Israel. It involved a possible intrusion of serious Communist influence into a part of the world dominated long, if unsurely, by the West. There was supposed to be a second line of defense against such an occurrence-the partnership of Turkey and Greece within the NATO alliance. But by last week, that partnership was itself in danger of disintegration. Far from acting like NATO allies, the Greeks...
Nasser, no Communist, gave his reasons for taking such a risky course. "We insist.'' he said, "on securing arms for our army to safeguard our revolution and our independence, and to preserve our dignity.'' The fact that Israel (pop. 1,700,000) has an army more than twice the size of Egypt's (pop. 22.5 million) is a constant source of humiliation to Nasser's military junta. It enables Israel to move in and out of the demilitarized border zone of El Auja with impunity, as it did last week, and it gives...
Under way in Israel this week is a campaign to get Jewish children out of the Christian mission schools. "Our children are being severed from the faith of their fathers," proclaimed a poster signed by Israel's Chief Rabbinate. "The danger to our children from missionaries cannot be exaggerated. They represent a danger to the Jewish religion and nation...
...Christian schools, mostly in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ramie and Nazareth, were established by the nine major Protestant and the eight major Roman Catholic missions now operating in Israel. Not many Israeli children go to them (about 1,500 of the 300,000 under 14). Those who send their children to the mission schools are mostly poor parents to whom the missions' free hot lunches, free school books (Jewish schools charge parents about $6 a term) and after-school sports are a big inducement. Some better-off Israelis are also attracted by the Catholic schools because they use French...
...Israel Oil Co. and Israel-Mediterranean Petroleum doubled in value, jumped more than a point apiece to 2½. Pantepec Oil Co., which had a brief flurry last winter after a radio tip by Columnist Walter Winchell (TIME, Jan. 31) but has done little since, shot up nearly two points to 6 1/8. Israel-American Oil Corp. climbed if points to triple in value and close at 3¼. Between them the four companies traded 365,500 shares. For stockholders in the companies (total shares outstanding: 15 million), the paper profit on the stock rise amounted to some $23 million...