Word: rehovoth
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...refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp along the shores of the Dead Sea. In Rehovoth, a sleepy little town founded by Polish Jews in 1890, the mysteries of life and death (not to mention the technicalities of heavy water) are probed by scientists at the Weizmann Institute, a research center that is among the world's best...
...drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched on their murderous errands by the Egyptian army intelligence chief at Gaza. Moaned one 18-year-old: "My father owns a tobacco shop, and he begged me not to become a fedayee...
...organization to the activists led by David Ben-Gurion. He had always opposed violence as a betrayal of the Jewish ethic, but Israel, perhaps necessarily, was born with war as the midwife. Weizmann was brushed aside and became a figurehead, enshrined, for past services, in a beautiful home in Rehovoth, surrounded by delicate Ming porcelains and modern French paintings...
Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Vanished Hope. Meanwhile, in Palestine, other tragic effects continued. In the hills overlooking the Garden of Gethsemane, Arabs and Jews bombarded each other with mortar and grenades. In an orange grove near Rehovoth, Jews blew up a British train bringing soldiers back from leave in Cairo. In the twisted steel and splintered wood, 28 were found dead, 47 wounded. The terrorist Stern Gang of extremist Zionists boasted that it had blown up the train...