Word: negev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...borders of Canaan, Moses sent twelve men headed by Joshua, son of Nun. Last week a scouting party of about the same size left almost the same place near the Sinai border of Israel to spy out the same land, Israel's forbidding Negev desert. Ten were amateur archaeologists and crack rifle shots from Israeli frontier villages. The eleventh and leader was Dr. Nelson Glueck, 59, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, an archaeologist-rabbi as lean and as leathery as Joshua. His purpose: to uncover traces of people who inhabited the Negev back to Moses...
Population: 100,000. The Negev, at the strategic crossroads of three continents, has obvious value to Israel and the West. Yet few parts of the world qualify better for the name "badlands," the desert so scarred by erosion and so parched by drought (less than 2 in. of rainfall in some areas) that many engineers believe only water pipelines from the north can make it habitable-and then on a minor scale. Glueck disagrees. He argues that the Negev once supported a fairly dense population, possibly 100,000 or more people, and that now it can be made to support...
...Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into the wasteland...
Intrigued by the Israeli controversy over what is a Jew (TIME, July 28), wily, white-thatched Humorist Harry Hershfield, on a Jerusalem visit, supplied his own definition: "Someone with courage, faith, stamina and a sense of humor." His hoary example? "A philanthropist comes to the Negev and sees this poor rabbi in a shabby synagogue and asks him: 'Rabbi, how much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that...
...fighting in the Jewish underground against the British; two years later he lost his left eye fighting for the British against the Vichy French in Syria. In the Palestine war of 1948-49, Colonel Dayan's motorized Israeli units captured Lydda and Ramie, cleared the Negev desert. In 1953 Dayan became chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, plotted the brilliant blitzkrieg in which Israel's army overran the Sinai peninsula and chewed up a fourth of Egypt's army in six days. Last week, a sinewy 42, Major General Moshe Dayan resigned as chief...