Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost eleven years of Israel's existence as a nation, white-thatched Premier David Ben-Gurion has never hesitated to take tough decisions, in spite of the consequences, which are often economic. The hard-pressed Israelis are still paying special heavy assessments for their militarily brilliant Sinai invasion of Egypt. Now faced with the problem of absorbing 100,000 new immigrants (mostly from Communist Rumania), the government last week slapped new taxes, up to 70%, on consumer goods, ranging from aspirin to refrigerators. It abolished rationing, price controls and subsidies on essential foodstuffs and proclaimed a "compulsory loan," which...
Though everyone involved, each for his own reasons, tried to play it down, the steady, almost stealthy, exodus of 17,000 Jews from Communist Rumania to Israel in the past six months (TIME, Jan. 26) was bound to attract the notice of the Arab world. This week the largely ineffectual Arab League is scheduling a protest meeting; Nasser's Cairo and Damascus radios agonized day and night over "the new Zionist plot aided by the imperialists to bring in 3,000,000 Eastern European Jews" to "occupied Palestine...
...quiet the Arabs, Russia's Izvestia declared that the Soviet Union would never think of alienating its Arab friends by permitting the emigration of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews to Israel. The Rumanian Communist government, while denouncing "infamous slanders" by "leading circles in Israel and Zionism" about "a mass migration of Jews" from Rumania, last week officially admitted for the first time that it was permitting Jews to leave for Israel, and would continue "on humanitarian grounds" to allow Jews to "reunite with their relatives in Israel...
Since at least 100.000 more Rumanian Jews are eager to get exit permits, Israel preferred to swallow the "slanders," and to keep discreet silence about the indignities systematically heaped upon departing Jews by the "humanitarian" Rumanians...
Milestones last week in the crowded calendar of widowed Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor and freshly divorced Crooner Eddie Fisher: both made beaming appearances at a banquet honoring Old Vaudevillian George Jessel, where Liz chipped in $100,000 for some Israel bonds; Eddie hosted a surprise 27th birthday party for his lovely friend, gave her a purse studded with 27 diamonds; Liz leased a Nevada desert ranch, just to be near Eddie during a Las Vegas saloon engagement next month...