Word: israell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spent a happy fifteen minutes exchanging Bible quotations with Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
...Israel, just one year old last week, got exactly what it had wanted for a birthday present: membership in U.N. The General Assembly having voted it in, 37-to-12 (with nine abstentions), welcomed U.N.'s 59th member with a standing ovation, politely forgot that the Israelis had again & again been at outs with U.N. The Israelis had balked when U.N. demanded that Jerusalem be internationalized, balked again when they were told to take back Palestine's Arab refugees...
Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...
Next Year ... Israel's strongly secular government, many of whose officials neglect to keep the Sabbath, went all out for the "Feast of Liberation." In accordance with a Jewish law that all regular cooking utensils must be put away during Passover week, the Israeli army formally sold all its pots & pans to a Gentile, with the tacit agreement that it would buy them back at. week's end. In Jerusalem's New City, the authorities erected a triumphal arch. From atop Mount Zion, Jewish pilgrims peered down into the Arab-held Old City; the Arabs...
...Israelis pointed out that their constitution already guarantees free access to holy places (however, "subject to the requirements of national security, public order and decorum"). As for internationalization, that was flatly out as far as Israel was concerned. It would rather go to war again than relinquish the City of the Temple, its strongest national symbol. "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem," Israelis read grimly from the 137th Psalm, "let my right hand forget her cunning . . ." The Jews were not forgetting...