Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Arab terrorists had been averaging three raids a month inside Israel, blowing up a house here, a bridge or water pipeline there. Last month, in their most daring exploit yet, they even reached the outskirts of Jerusalem, where they bombed an apartment building only a mile from the home of Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert...
...Jesus' teachings, had a pristine simplicity. As Paul put it in II Corinthians, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." But Paul himself, as much Greek as Jew, used a different and more powerful language to proclaim Christ than did Jesus' simple fishermen followers in Jerusalem. And the more Christianity escaped from its Palestinian setting into the broader Mediterranean world, the more it turned to non-Hebraic languages and concepts to convey its central truths...
BRISKER SCRIPTURE KING JAMES JERUSALEM...
...first time, it seemed, since the flood, there were real tears in the old battler's eyes, as a schoolgirl presented a bouquet of 80 roses on the parade route outside Jerusalem. Then his car inched slowly forward, as a crowd of some 50,000 gave a rousing birthday cheer to Israel's ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion. "I am only 20," B-G said wistfully. "Four times 20." Though most Israelis were feeling sentimental about their nation's grand old man, Premier Levi Eshkol was not. Having feuded with Ben-Gurion almost since...
Stocks in a Suitcase. Barring near-miracles, Intra's failure seems sure to cost its brash, engaging founder and chairman, Yusif Bedas, 53, control of his $1 billion empire. Born the second son of an Arab schoolteacher in Jerusalem, Bedas fled Palestine when it became Israel in 1948. Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes...