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...supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports 5,000,000 people, and last week a New York Times reporter described much of Bagdad as "a festering slum." An entire civilization once flourished in the Negeb, with terraced lands, inns for wayfarers and broad-avenued cities. The cities have crumbled, and the Negeb is now a dust bowl, with rare patches of green painstakingly watered by dedicated Israelis...
...dawn one day last week, a bus pulled out of the stockade at Elath, Israel's southernmost outpost and single Red Sea port. It headed north into the Negeb desert, toward Beersheba and civilization, wheezing and jogging for hours through the cratered wasteland that comprises half of Israel. The 15 passengers chatted and compared souvenirs. Outside, vultures wheeled in the pale...
...reached treacherous Scorpion's Pass, 60 miles south of Beersheba, and started up the grade like a clumsy beetle. As it neared a stone monument, erected to honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent...
...Israel erupted in anger. The Israeli Cabinet met in emergency session. Ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion came out of retirement in the Negeb and conferred with his successor, Moshe Sharett, and the Israeli army chiefs. At dawn the next day, U.N. observers and Israelis led three police-trained dogs to the scene, let them sniff deeply of a black knitted Arab cap found behind the war memorial, and gave them their heads. By nightfall the baying hounds had reached a point six miles from the Jordan border. "Investigations are not complete, and this case cannot be prejudged," said...
Last week Paula laid away his formal clothes in moth balls. The white-haired old dynamo had run down; he was going back to the land, to the pioneer moshave of Sde Boker in the Negeb, Israel's desert frontier, to live in a three-room wooden hut and resume his study of classical and Renaissance philosophy. Paula was not too enthusiastic about renouncing city life, but planned to resume her old occupation and become the colony's nurse...