Word: negev
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Only the kiddies, in any case, are likely to sit through this bushwa. Sodom is presented as a mighty metropolis, the New York of the Negev; actually, it was more like the Atlantic City of the Dead Sea, a boom town that got brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman...
...Joshua Moses Javits, 13, it was an auspicious entrance into Jewish manhood. He was in Israel for his bar mitzvah, and his proud papa, New York Senator Jacob Javits, 58, made sure that it was a memorable event. First young Joshua was whisked to a Negev Desert kibbutz to meet Premier David Ben-Gurion, who administered an impromptu Biblical quiz. Next it was a session with Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who nodded approvingly as Joshua recited from the Torah. On the big day, in Jerusalem's cavernous Yeshurun synagogue, Joshua marked his confirmation by intoning in near flawless...
Kreyssig's first problem was to find an Israeli community that would accept his missionaries. Only ten of the nation's 275 kibbutzim agreed to the idea, and even then the first team that went out to a Negev collective last year found it hard to make friends. The second group, twelve young Germans installed at Kibbutz Ba-han on the Jordan frontier, has had an easier time. Each morning they rise at 5:30 a.m. and head for their assigned chores. Some work on tractors, others in cauliflower gardens or the citrus orchards. Admits a leader...
...range of 360 miles and could land, says Nasser pointedly, "just south of Beirut," i.e., in Israel. There is even a dim possibility of nuclear warheads. In moving up the escalator toward atomic power, Israel, with French help, has built a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor in the Negev near Beersheba. and Egypt has a 2,000-kw. reactor at Inshas, 30 miles from Cairo, built with Soviet and private West German...
...what really steals the scene is the scene: Israel, with its ethnic freshness and vitality. In Independence Day Hora, the company swirls up a cyclone in a hand-holding folk dance, then explodes in Kazachok-styled kicks and leaps. Here, and in a muscle-throbbing stomp set in the Negev, Choreographer Saddler rises above the dance-for-dance-sake motives of most musicals to salute the pioneer spirit. An artful change of pace from the robust to the exotic brings a Yemenite wedding ceremony, in which the color of spectacle-cloth-of-gold gowns, jeweled headdresses, a pinpricked panoply...