Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JERUSALEM, Feb 2--Shooting stopped on the Israeli-Syrian frontier Tuesday, but a report that Egyptian troops have lined up on the southern flank of Israel increased tension...
...syndicate of Southern California entrepreneurs who last week announced plans for a Biblical version of Disneyland that should render much coin unto Caesar. Built in the shape of a heart ("symbolic of God's love") and subdivided into six freewheeling reproductions of the Garden of Eden, Rome, Babylon, Israel, Egypt and Ur, the amusement park is scheduled to open Easter Sunday 1961, when tens of thousands can be expected to make the 4O-mile, eight-cylinder pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the site at Cucamonga...
...leading outdoor activity in Israel is Biblical archaeology-digging up traces of heroes and villains who died thousands of years ago but who seem to enthusiasts almost as real as Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. Last week Soldier-Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Israel's Chief of Operations in the Palestine war of 1948 and the general who chased the Egyptians out of the Negev by a strategic plan derived from the Old Testament, offered proof that the celebrated ruin at Megiddo was not built by King Solomon, as had been supposed. Instead it was built by the "wicked...
...student-archaeologists to Megiddo. In three days he found what he was looking for: an earlier wall in the style of Hazor and Gezer. This wall, he believes, was really built by Solomon. The later wall and the stables were probably built by Ahab, who became King of Israel 50 years after Solomon's death (about...
Having decided that Ahab built the walls of Megiddo, Archaeologist Yadin has also begun the King's rehabilitation. Reading between the lines of the Bible, he says, one can conclude that Ahab was the most effective King of Israel after Solomon. Ahab defeated the invading Assyrians. His marriage to Jezebel was a shrewd diplomatic move, since she was a princess of the powerful neighboring kingdom of Phoenicia. The record is not clear, but apparently Ahab's mistake, in regard to his later reputation, was to oppose a religious faction that instigated a rebellion against his son Joram...