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...present civilian population is about 500, nearly all male. Of these, 100 are construction workers who have been building military installations and a new road to Eilat. "We're here if they want us to build houses too," says Supervisor Avraham Calev. Some of his workers have already joined the waiting list for government-supplied housing. One, Avraham Freedman, mused about the future. "Look at the lights shining on the Caravan Hotel," he said. "It's almost like Chicago." I saw only one string of lights, but Freedman was sincere. "Trust the Israelis; one day it will...
Jesus' Agony. The time and place of the young man's execution invited comparison to Jesus Christ's own Passion on the cross-which scholars believe took place about A.D. 30, when Jesus was in his mid-30s.*But Israel's director of antiquities, Avraham Biran, and a number of Christian biblical scholars were quick to warn against any attempt to identify the skeleton as that of Jesus. As Dr. Bruce Metzger of the Princeton Theological Seminary pointed out, "We have absolutely no knowledge of Jesus' physical stature." Moreover, the man was younger than Jesus...
...plant-and it was suddenly clear what Israel was up to (the installation was also distantly visible from the Beersheba-Sodom highway). The State Department and the CIA called a special session of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy; Secretary of State Christian Herter summoned Israeli Ambassador Avraham Harman to the State Department for some stern questioning. Last week Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion reluctantly admitted that Israel was indeed building the questionable reactor-for peaceful research purposes only, he said-and would agree to open it to inspection...