Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being a human being again, not just a number." Sent to the U.S. by United Service for New Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts. But in the timbre of his voice there was more than rhetoric: "We have everything here . . . super highways, aspirin, fine hospitals, penicillin, atomic energy, bubble gum, Buck Rogers...
Flag Up. A few hours after Cunningham left the docks at Haifa, 400 Jews gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum under the watchful eyes of Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land ... of our fathers...
...stocky man with a halo of electric white hair, dressed in a light blue suit and tie and white shirt, fiddled nervously with his glasses and papers, looked frequently at his watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept. In the two hours that remained before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath would begin, Tel Aviv's jubilant...
Still other Arab contingents were on the move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question...
...also welcome Abdullah's occupation of Arab parts of Palestine. He has a name among Arabs of being too friendly to the Jews. In 1933-until outraged fellow Arabs forced him to renege-he leased 22½ square miles of Transjordan land to the Jews. Both Abdullah and Jewish leaders, as the two dominant contenders for Palestine, knew that in the long run they would have to agree to live side by side. To mollify his Arab allies, Abdullah would have to breathe anti-Zionist fire. But he was a reluctant dragon. While he talked war, he wanted peace...