Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What was built before 1948 as a model campus for Hebrew University is now a forlorn and uninhabited neutral zone within sight of Israeli Jerusalem...
...Haifa and Tel Aviv, the major movie theaters were half empty. Throughout Israel, hundreds of thousands of Jews sat listening by their radios, many with Bible in hand. Jerusalem's big Convention Hall was jammed to its 3,000-seat capacity and, said an official, "We could have sold out the hall five times over." It was time for the third International Bible Quiz, a triennial event that has become an international institution in the land of Benjamin and Ben-Gurion...
Bookkeeper & Glassblower. This year, 20 contestants were in Jerusalem for the finals, each a winner of competitions in his homeland. There was a chicken farmer from New Zealand, a paratroop major from the Belgian army, an Italian glassblower, a Seventh-day Adventist bookkeeper from Brazil, a Swiss electrician. From the U.S. came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen...
...contest lasted two nights, using questions drawn up by a team of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars and tested out on the 1961 world champion, Rabbi Yihie Alsheich of Jerusalem. A team of 15 linguists then put the questions, all taken from the Old Testament, into the ten languages spoken by the contestants. Toughest problem: phrasing the questions in Amharic for Begalech Gabre, a beautiful 18-year-old girl from Ethiopia, who entered the contest in hopes of getting a scholarship to a Jerusalem medical school...
...second round, half of the contestants had dropped out of competition; Mitchell and Krasniansky were neck and neck for the lead. On the final round, Mitchell scored 45 out of a possible 50 points, including eight out of twelve on a complex question about prophetic references to Jerusalem. On that question, the judges gave a nine to Krasniansky, who nonetheless fluffed an easier one, finished second with 44. Third, with 38½, came Irja Immonen...