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Last week the Israelis sent water-the most precious commodity in the Middle East-coursing into the parched southland. Before a happy crowd of 15,000 at Rosh Haayin, ten miles from modern Tel Aviv-Jaffa, old President Itzhak Ben-Zvi thanked God and pressed a lever. With a roar giant diesel pumps began to send water from the Yarkon River into a 66-in. pipeline that snakes toward the Negev plateau 65 miles away...
...From Moses to Moses there has been no man like Moses," said Israel's President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, and the audience assembled in Jerusalem's Rav Kook Institute one day last week recognized the old Jewish saying. They had assembled to honor the second Moses, the great philosopher Maimonides, who brought the Law and tradition of Judaism within the compass of Western thought. Around the walls of the institute were some 3,000 old and battered volumes, stained from centuries of diligent study. The exhibition of his work was the first of many celebrations of Maimonides Year...
...uniform or another against Hitler. Midway in the ceremony, two tiny, corn-yellow Piper Cubs circled low over the crowd. As one passed over Sharett's head, flying only 100 yards above the ground, the pilot dropped a parachute bearing a memorial message from President Ben-Zvi...
...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac Ben-Zvi...
Israel's new President Isaac Ben Zvi, a plain-living and frugal man who lived for 26 years in a tar-papered wooden shack, refused to let the government buy him a mansion befitting his title. He finally settled for a small house with office space on the first floor, living quarters on the second, and a large hut in the yard for official receptions...