Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most passionately engaged in the debate are Israel's nimbus-haired Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, and three key Jewish organizations. The three...
...produce four opinions. As of last week, Jewish leaders with deeply held and vastly differing opinions were involved in a dispute that went to the very heart of Jewry. At immediate issue was the relationship between the U.S.'s 5,500,000 Jews and the proud state of Israel (pop. 2,115,000). But even broader and greater was an old issue revolving around the meaning and purpose of Jewry. Is Jewishness a religion, a nationality or a peoplehood? In sum: What...
...Jerusalem last week, Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, temporarily ignoring the Eichmann trial, ordered out his scientific troops for a major assault on Biblical history. Find Israel's first army for me, he told an assembly of his country's leading archaeologists. Dig up the remains of Abraham's band of 318 men who pulled off a nighttime pincer attack at Dan and freed Abraham's nephew Lot from Chedorlaomer, King of the Elamites (Genesis...
...present thought the request unreasonable. They had already dug farther into Israel's past. On display while Ben-Gurion spoke were more than 400 recently found, perfectly preserved, precisely carved artifacts-remnants of a little-known chalcolithic people who predated Abraham by almost 1,500 years. A second expedition of diggers had brought back fresh finds from the reign of Shimon Bar Kochba, self-styled first President of Israel, who led an unsuccessful revolt against Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions...
Written in elegant Mishnaic Hebrew, the letters had an oddly contemporary ring. As in present-day Israel, all land belonged to the state, and one set of scrolls disclosed an intricate real estate deal in which a government administrator leased several plots to a four-man syndicate which, in turn, subleased the plots among themselves-probably to dodge taxes. A second lease involved a date grove controlled by a rich woman named Babata. When her daughter Shlomzion was married, Babata paid a dowry of 200 dinars. According to the marriage contract, signed in A.D. 133, the bride was guarded against...