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...leaders of Israel's National Religious Party has warned that any decision in the case that violates Halakha will bring about the party's resignation from the Cabinet. "Shalit's theory would create an iron gate between Jews inside Israel and those outside," argues Israel Ben-Meir, the Deputy Interior Minister. "It is based on the geographic factor-that being in Israel would determine...
...work of Meir Ben-Uri, 59, one of Israel's leading religious painters and synagogue designers, who made a long, scholarly study of the historical evidence. Many geologists reckon that around 4000 B.C. a flood devastated what is now Iraq; archaeologists have dug up cuneiform tablets in the region relating the tale of a man who survived by building a vessel...
...millions of dollars" in mobilization costs, lost matériel, destruction of property and a three-week fall-off in production. To cover these costs and to build up foreign currency reserves, the country is depending in part on a stepped-up drive for tourists. Says Tourism Minister Meir de Shalit, "After repelling the planned Arab invasion of Israel, we are now preparing to welcome the friendly invasion of visitors from all parts of the world." Greece's Olympic Airways last week issued an invitation in an ad that showed a Boeing 707 draped with an olive branch...
...Eshkol and formed the opposition Rafi Party. Gleeful Rafi men expected to pick up some support from disenchanted Mapai members and hoped eventually to unseat Eshkol. Last week they were spreading rumors that Mapai intended to replace Eshkol with either Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir or former Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
Poison on the Wounds. In his lean and brisk account of the 1956 war, Dayan discusses tactical errors made by his own army and dissects them so frankly that many Israelis are clamoring for his other eye. Typical is the claim, of former Foreign Minister Golda Meir, that Dayan's book drips "poison on the open wounds of bereaved parents" by telling them that their sons were often killed because of Israeli mistakes. If anything, such complaints are a disservice to the man who conceived and executed a brilliant military adventure of such power and daring that the memory...