Word: negev
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...that way. Half a million chose or were forced into exile, including virtually all the educated, urbanized Arabs; 156,000 stayed behind, mostly unlettered villagers. With a birth rate three times that of Israel's Jewish population, the Arab numbers have doubled. Including 30,000 Bedouins of the Negev Desert and 30,000 Druse, one of every eight Israelis is now an Arab. (The 1,000,000 Arabs in the occupied territories do not have citizenship...
West Germany is Israel's third best trading partner, after the U.S. and Britain. Imports from West Germany nearly doubled last year, to $115 million. The bulk consisted of machinery and steel, including supplies for the trans-Negev oil pipeline built to bypass the Suez canal. Consumer goods, notably more than $10 million worth of autos, took up a good share of the total. Though many Israelis still flatly refuse even to ride in a Volkswagen-and more than just a few North American Jews will not consider buying VWs-German autos outsold those of all other nations...
...years on a kibbutz and four in grinding poverty in Jerusalem. He returned to the U.S., later went back to Tel Aviv, where he was employed as a bookkeeper, and died in 1951. She remained in Israel with a daughter Sara, who now lives on a kibbutz in the Negev, and a son Menachem, a cellist who studied with Pablo Casals and is now teaching music in New Haven, Conn...
Driving through the Negev at night is like driving anywhere. The darkness obscures the rocky, barren plain that stretches out from the road, and it is impossible to see the rough peaks that rise sharply from the flat desert surface. It's just you and the highway, and the road could be the New Jersey Turnpike or a quiet strip in the country...
...United Nations, and Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, who escaped the Salt attack unscathed, swore that "we shall strike back harder than ever." The Israelis replied in kind. Two days later they used helicopters to track a fleeing band of commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously that "any form of war and incitement...