Word: yosef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went on to castigate Pius XII for being silent "when millions of Jews were murdered" during World War II. Israel rejected the U.N. censure as hopelessly one-sided, since Arab nations are regularly protected from similar blame by Soviet veto. Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Yosef Tekoah, termed the censure proof of "the moral, political and juridical bankruptcy of the Council regarding the Middle East situation." Tekoah continued, making a justifiable point that most Israelis felt summed up their case: "Is the single life of the Israeli engineer killed in Athens worth less than all the metal...
...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...
...surprise. Four days before the invasion, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that the Arabs were preparing for a "new wave of terror," which Israel would take steps to contain if King Hussein of Jordan could not. Premier Levi Eshkol told the Knesset much the same thing, and Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah on the same day filed two complaints with the United Nations against the Arabs' "repeated acts of aggression." The stage was set for retaliation...
QUIET. AGNON is WRITING, reads a street sign in Talpioth, a fir-shaded suburb of Jerusalem. It honors the solitude of Israel's most beloved and most retiring author, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, who until recently was almost unknown in the West. Lately, a steady tide of visitors has disobeyed the sign and trespassed on the austere hospitality of his house, which offers only a few folding chairs to guests. Israel counts Agnon a cultural hero, studies his work in its schools, and has given him a hero's place since he returned from Stockholm last December with...
...Health, Education and Welfare John W." Gardner, 54, Photographer Edward Steichen, 87, and Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, all named for Family of Man awards for their contributions to humanity; Israel's patriarchal Man of Letters Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, and German-born Jewish Poetess Nelly Sachs, 74, a fragile lyricist who fled Hitler's Germany in 1940 to live in Sweden, named to share the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature. No peace prize was awarded...