Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shop comes the click of dice. An aged street vendor watches for hungry pilgrims with his roasted peanuts, and the Moslem proprietor of the souvenir shop next door offers a special on the miniature crowns of thorns made by Arab refugees. The Holy Week price: $1. At the barricaded Jaffa Gate, a pair of Arab Legion sentries stuff hands in pockets against the chill, and a radio blares a newscast. A bright red poster on an ancient wall nearby advertises an American movie, Massacre Canyon...
...your duties?" in 218 settlements; new vocational schools graduated 61,000 immigrants, including Yemenite welders who man the new $5,000,000 pipe factory at Yuval Gad, carefully tucking their side curls behind their ears before putting on their helmets. In the new immigration towns such as Acre and Jaffa, authorities mix the newcomers to speed integration. One apartment house may hold families from as many countries as there are apartments. Some Europeans complain of being put next door to "blacks," and Israel with all its other perplexities now must worry about the color problem...
...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...
Next day in the wire-enclosed Central Elections Committee headquarters in Jaffa, guarded by a posse of police, the votes were counted. The result showed an un expected drift away from Ben-Gurion's moderate Mapai (Labor) Party, a defeat for the more conservative General Zionists, and a surprising tilt towards the extremists of both sides. Shock-haired Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Premier, who became a shepherd and now has returned to shep herd his people, had acted almost as if the premiership would be his by acclamation. Apparently, the present Premier, Moshe Sharett, also a member...
Last week the Israelis sent water-the most precious commodity in the Middle East-coursing into the parched southland. Before a happy crowd of 15,000 at Rosh Haayin, ten miles from modern Tel Aviv-Jaffa, old President Itzhak Ben-Zvi thanked God and pressed a lever. With a roar giant diesel pumps began to send water from the Yarkon River into a 66-in. pipeline that snakes toward the Negev plateau 65 miles away...