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This fact dominates Israel. "If we retire ten miles," said one Israeli general, "we're in the sea. If we move back 500 yards in Jerusalem, we give up our Knesset [the Parliament]. We must hold the border, yielding not an inch...
...next day, before a jammed Knesset, Premier Moshe Sharett defied hothead cries for war and promised: "Israel . . . has no intention of embarking on aggression or provocation." The Parliament unanimously voted him confidence, endorsed his moderate course of appealing to the U.N. for redress against Jordan. But would moderation prevail...
Benzedrine Letdown. Fearful of wrenching the new-made state apart at the seams, the parliamentarians of the Knesset have been egg-walking through a series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher...
...Israel's Knesset (Parliament) passed a bill which makes the rabbinate the sole body authorized to officiate at marriages or divorces in Israel. This means that all the ancient restrictions of the Torah are the law of the land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...
...last week, as the Knesset debated the bill, 10,000 Orthodox Jews from the Mea Shearim and from all over Israel converged on Shaarei Hessed Square in the biggest anti-government demonstration in Israel's troubled history. Red-eyed from weeping, they swayed and wailed, prayed, and blew upon the ram's horn, a signal of national distress. Despite their prayers, the conscription bill passed the first Knesset reading...