Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sirhan's 56-year-old mother, Mary Sirhan, helped explain her son's rage, telling of a baby born in Jerusalem amid the turmoil of war-torn Palestine. When Arab fought Jew in 1948, the street before their home became a barbed-wire no-man's-land. As a toddler, Sirhan had witnessed a terrorist bombing, and one of his brothers was killed by a car speeding to outrun hostile gunfire. From modest comfort, the family was reduced to the mindless misery of refugees. It was, Sirhan insisted, a tragedy that had transformed him into a rootless...
...Yiddish folk schools, she never fulfilled that ambition. Instead, she joined the Labor Zionist movement as an enthusiastic, full-time worker. At 23, she embarked for riot-torn Palestine with a reluctant non-Zionist husband, Morris Myerson, spent two years on a kibbutz and four in grinding poverty in Jerusalem. He returned to the U.S., later went back to Tel Aviv, where he was employed as a bookkeeper, and died in 1951. She remained in Israel with a daughter Sara, who now lives on a kibbutz in the Negev, and a son Menachem, a cellist who studied with Pablo Casals...
...guerrillas also stepped up their war, as weather improved. The fedayeen planted a package of explosives outside the British consulate in Jerusalem, presumably in response to reports that Britain intends to sell tanks to Israel, reports that London declines to confirm or deny. Another bomb went off in the marketplace of Lydda, wounding an Arab grocer. In Jordan, fedayeen leaders took to moving from camp to camp, fearing assassination by Israeli infiltrators. King Hussein temporarily closed down Amman airport, and Egypt's Nasser declared a state of emergency...
...Jerusalem Earth. If any reminder of Israel's siege mentality were needed, it was provided in the tight security surrounding Eshkol's state funeral. The Premier had wanted to be buried at Degania B, a kibbutz he helped to found near the Jordanian border. The Cabinet decided for security reasons to bury him instead on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, named for the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who is buried there. For the funeral, reservists were called up and extra police posted in Arab sections of the city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession...
...could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...