Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founded by the Blessed Gerard in Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order has returned to a mission close to its original calling. The knights support a worldwide program of medical aid and refugee relief that extends to 42 countries. Of some 8,000 members, only 40 take the order's religious vows...
...knights intend to keep their headquarters in Rome, where they enjoy the distinction of being the world's smallest sovereign state, with diplomatic relations with 37 countries. The total territory of the order, whose full title is the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, consists of two small Roman palaces, where the knights mint their own coins and raise funds for their good works by printing stamps...
Fire on the Sabbath. The son of Polish immigrants who went to Jerusalem when he was a child, Goren was a Talmudic prodigy who became Palestine's youngest ordained rabbi at the age of 16, a year later published a scholarly study of the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He joined the Zionist underground in 1936, was a sniper in Jerusalem during the Palestine war. and became chief rabbi of the Israeli army when it was formed in 1948. Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah...
...Shlomo Goren, 49, is at the head of his congregation-at all times and under all circumstances. As chief rabbi of the Israeli army, Goren has had ample opportunity to practice that belief. His bushy white beard flapping in the wind, he dashed through sniper fire in Arab-held Jerusalem to become the first Israeli soldier to reach the Wailing Wall during last year's Six-Day War with the Arabs. Clutching the Torah scroll and ram's horn that are the symbols of his religion, he also led his troops to the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem...
...biggest clash was at the edge of the walled city of Jerusalem between helmeted police and a procession of mourners on their way to a Moslem cemetery. The police were stoned when they tried to limit the number of Arabs entering the Damascus Gate and responded with a charge. The Israelis also fired their weapons in the air to frighten away Arab demonstrators heading in the direction of the Wailing Wall, where they might have collided with praying Jews...