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...July 1918, a modest but memorable ceremony took place. On the afternoon of the 24th the foundation stones of the Hebrew University were laid on Mount Scopus . . . The declining sun flooded the hills of Judea and Moab with golden light, and it seemed to me, too, that the transfigured heights were watching ... dimly aware, perhaps, that this was the beginning of the return of their own people after many days. Below us lay Jerusalem, gleaming like a jewel...
...reason is simple. Those who can are getting out. They are working all over the Arab world as teachers or junior staffers in oil companies. One sees them in Syria, Iraq, and up & down the length of the Persian Gulf, sad, lonely for the lovely hills of Judea. They are a new race of wanderers from the Holy Land...
...Government by crony goes back much farther . . . Tacitus, Roman historian, speaks of Felix, governor of Judea in the ist Century: "This man did not think it necessary to impose any restraint on his desires. He considered his connection with the emperor's favorite as a license for the worst of crimes...
...When the United Jewish Appeal decided to repatriate 35,000 Yemenite Jews from Southern Arabia, it hired the Tigers to fly them back home-thus, said Prescott, fulfilling the Biblical prophecy that the Yemenites would be returned to Judea on the wings of an angel...
...slickest book illustrators. Obviously determined to achieve an atmosphere of truth to nature and history, Artist Legrand had turned his back on the usual modern mishmash of beards, flowing sheets and halos, had drawn lean, Semitic men & women and placed them in landscapes as stark as the hills of Judea...