Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Judge Wyzanski barely jumped away from the splash of Goldfine's friendly money. Last November, while he patiently sorted out the complex Boston Port operations, Wyzanski spent an evening with his wife at one of her fund-raising benefits, this one for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Who should turn up-and make a $1,000 contribution "in honor of Mrs. Wyzanski"-but Bernard and Charlotte Goldfine, whom the Wyzanskis had never met socially. With an air of innocent enthusiasm, Mrs. Goldfine bustled over to say that her husband had made the gift "because he admires your wife...
...devoid of any recognizable theme. The British exhibit, for example, contrasted the symbols of Britain's imperial past with her present progress in science and technology; the Dutch exhibit showed how a thrifty nation wrested land from the sea to become a prosperous agricultural and seafaring power; the Israel exhibit showed how a hardy breed of men created a nation in the desert after centuries of persecution; and even the boastful Russians blended exhibits of Sputnik, industrial machinery and imitative consumer goods to overplay the Soviets as a great industrial power...
...more than half of all Israelis. But it is much more. Together with the government, it owns and operates at least 60% of the nation's business. It invests in iron foundries, textile mills and shipyards, factories from Dan to Beersheba. When the army's victories made Israel safe beyond these scriptural bounds, Histadrut reopened King Solomon's (copper) mines and built a luxury hotel to attract tourists to Elath. Denounced as monopolistic (its grandiose Tel Aviv headquarters is known as the Kremlin), Histadrut has lately agreed to invest jointly with private enterprise...
Even though the old Zionist. Socialist and religious ideals still rule, their appeal begins to fade as Israel changes. Youngsters growing up on the desert feel more at home with shish kebab and Arab bread than with mother's gefüllte fish and apple strudel. Half the newcomers of recent years are Oriental Jews who never shared the peculiar Zionist and Socialist vision of Ben-Gurion's generation, and not even the old lawgiver can keep half their young folk down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born...
...study history at the Hebrew University and is regarded by all, Ben-Gurion included, as a political comer. General Dayan has been stumping the country this month urging that it is now more important to develop industry and irrigation than to bring in more settlers, and proclaiming that Israel (one-third of whose income still comes from foreign subsidies) must slash its living standards if it is to live as an independent nation-state...