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Virtually the same scene was repeated at a second apartment. Wrestler Joseph Romano apparently fought off the intruding Arabs momentarily with a knife, but he was mortally wounded. Yosef Gottfreund, a 6-ft. 1-in., 240-lb. wrestling referee, held a door shut despite the efforts of five Arabs pushing from the other side. "Hevra tistalku!" Gottfreund yelled in Hebrew [Boys, get out!]. It was too late, when the door was finally forced, for Gottfreund to get out. In all, however, 18 Israelis managed to escape. Nine who did not make it to the exits were taken hostage. They were...
...YOSEF GOTTFREUND, 40, the hefty wrestling referee, had heroically held a door of the Israeli quarters shut, allowing others to escape. A Jerusalem merchant, Gottfreund left a wife and two daughters, one of whom told friends in Jerusalem: "His last act was typical of him; my father was always ready to help others...
...high dudgeon by now, Russia's Malik grabbed the microphones again, this time to deliver a bullying attack on "Zionist extremists." Glaring over the rostrum at Israeli Delegate Yosef Tekoah, Malik sarcastically asked why the Jews should be a "chosen people" who were "closer to God" than the rest of humanity. "This is religious racism!" Malik shouted. "Religious fascism!" Tekoah, trembling with rage, stepped to the rostrum. Jews, he said, indeed seemed to have been chosen-"chosen to suffer." In a telling swipe at his Bolshevik adversary, he noted that Zionists had been battling imperialism "long before the Russian...
...Security Council unanimously passed a resolution urging Israel to desist from its attempts to change the status of Jerusalem. Soviet Delegate Yakov Malik accused Israel of fascism and racism for building Israeli housing on what had been Arab land. If the plight of Soviet Jews improved, Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tek-oah countered, "the voice of the Soviet Union would be heard with greater respect." At that Malik warned, "Don't stick your long nose into our garden. History shows that those who do, lose their noses...
...galvanized the government into a hard stand. Dayan, who earlier had considered resigning, boycotted a meeting of Israel's Cabinet to demonstrate his anger over the missile issue. After five days of debate, the Cabinet swung behind Dayan's view that Israel's U.N. ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, who had been recalled to Jerusalem for conferences, should not return to New York to resume meetings with Jarring until the missile question was settled. Appearing on television, Dayan praised the Cabinet's decision, thereby indicating his intention of remaining in the government. At the same time, however...