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...Levi Eshkol to develop the Negev, then gave a two-hour evening lecture on other Eshkol shortcomings. In prep aration for Israel's general elections on Nov. 2, Ben-Gurion has founded a new party called Rafi and is seeking to wrest the balance of power in the Knesset (Parliament) from his hand-picked replacement for Premier...
...Rockefeller family's church. In total, his stained glass immeasurably enriches this century's wealth in an arcane craft. He has tackled another long-neglected art: weavers in the famous Gobelins tapestry works are even now finishing a triptych of Old Testament hangings for Israel's Knesset...
...like a cemetery in here," whispered a backbencher in Jerusalem's Knesset last week. And well it might be, for the legislature was facing the most painful decision in Israel's recent history-the question of close diplomatic ties with West Germany, a nation inevitably associated in Jewish minds with the hated Nazi past...
Purim holiday, angry pickets outside the Knesset were in no festive mood as they jostled police and waved placards denouncing the government motion. But for all the emotionalism, in the end Eshkol's plea for wise hearts-along with party discipline-prevailed; by a vote of 66 to 29, with 10 abstentions, the Knesset voted to establish diplomatic ties with West Germany...
...back into development all its profits, which amounted to about $50 million in 1964. "Our profit is the development of the country," says Aharon Becker, 59, secretary general of Histadrut and chairman of Hevrat Ovdim. Becker forgoes pay for his jobs, lives instead on his $400-a-month as Knesset Deputy. Though one of Israel's five most powerful leaders, he prefers the anonymity of his 1962 grey Plymouth and three-room apartment in Tel Aviv's workers' housing development...