Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army camp outside Tel Aviv while Israeli troops were attacking Arabs at Lydda airport, only an eight-minute jeep ride away. Soldiers returning from battle trickled in between numbers while others left to take over at the front. A few days later the orchestra gave its first concert in Jerusalem in spite of an Arab blockade of the city...
History in the Making. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion stepped up colonization schedules for the Jerusalem corridor and the Negeb, planned to settle 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in the southern desert within the next three years. Within two months, he announced, several hundred Jewish pioneers would move into Beersheba to make it a Jewish town. He also announced that Israeli representatives were holding secret talks with leaders of two Arab nations (probably Lebanon and Egypt...
...desert; and when Antipas, bored, takes her to Rome, she is disgusted by his dissipations. Their daughter Fara, however, is beautiful, a favorite of both Arabs and Jews. When Antipas divorces his wife and sends wife & child back to the desert, the Arabs plan revenge. They raid Jerusalem, and ride into Herod's palace, only to find that Herod is already dead. The next attempt is Fara's-at eleven she learns of her mother's tragedy, and at 16 disguises herself as a boy, and sets out to kill Antipas, her father...
Died. Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, 71, California-born co-founder and longtime president of famed Hebrew University (Jerusalem), a leading Zionist and No. 1 champion of the binational state plan for Jews and Arabs in Palestine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...