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...hundreds of vehicles that wound their way through Israel's Negev Desert last week formed a kind of mobile Who's Who. Led by President Zalman Shazar and Premier Golda Meir, the pilgrims were bound for the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker to pay homage, on his 85th birthday, to former Premier David Ben-Gurion...
...league-founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane-has taken on neo-Nazis, allegedly anti-Semitic blacks and the Soviet persecution of Jews. It is most notorious for its harassment of Soviet diplomats in the U.S. (TIME, May 24). Kahane is currently out on five-year probation after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to manufacture explosives. The camp is part of the league's program-originated in the poorer Jewish neighborhoods of New York City -to teach Jewish youths the fundamentals of self-defense at a time when threats to life and property seem to be ominously mounting...
...guns of Israel and Egypt have been silent along the Suez Canal for more than a year now. Last week, as the cease-fire that has preserved a tense and tentative peace in the region moved into its second year, TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark talked to Israeli Premier Golda Meir in her Jerusalem office about the outlook for negotiations and the possibilities for a lasting peace. The interview preceded Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's call for Israel to consider itself the "established government" of the Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war. Premier Meir later dissociated herself from that...
...Meir, at this point in time, a year after the cease-fire went into effect, how do you assess the outlook for war or for peace...
Alarmed by such signs of relaxation, Golda Meir asked Israel's parliament: "What has happened to us in the past year? We are behaving as if there were no danger ahead of us, as if we had already achieved the peace we long...