Word: israel
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...uneasy border peace between Israeli and Arab was broken last week by the sharpest armed clash since Israel's 1956 invasion of the Sinai peninsula. It began with a sporadic, five-day-long exchange of gunfire over the efforts of Arab farmers to plow up disputed land in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, south of the Sea of Galilee. It became something else when Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion got word at a Cabinet meeting that an Israeli border policeman had been killed in the exchanges. He ordered a reprisal attack of the kind that Israel used...
Later that day, Syrian forces moved back into the ruins of Tawafik, after U.N. officials had won the usual assurances of a cease-fire amid the usual counter-exchanges of boasts and threats. Cairo claimed to have killed 38 Israelis (Israel said it lost only three), and two Syrian MIG pilots were decorated after an aerial dogfight in which, said the Israelis, the MIGs fired wildly out of range...
...intensity of Israel's reprisal reflects a revival of the old Israeli feelings of frustration. The Arab economic boycott has been cutting into their trade, President Nasser has been getting more aid from both East and West, and the U.N. has failed to secure passage for Israeli goods through the Suez Canal, even when carried in ships of other countries. After several years of quiet diplomacy, a familiar old note was struck in Ben-Gurion's militant warning last week to his people: "During the next decade we are liable to face a grave and perhaps decisive military...
Last fall the America-Israel Cultural Foundation helped arrange a meeting between Rose and Bezalel's boyish, brilliant director, Karl Katz. Katz agreed that the hunger was there, and gave one cogent reason: there is hardly any modern art displayed in the Middle East. Argued Katz: "From Jerusalem you'd have to go west as far as Rome, east as far as Tokyo, and south forever, to find a decent modern collection. This one will fill a tremendous gap." He added that the museum owns 25 acres of barren ground in the geographic center of expanding Jerusalem. "When...
...Phone. A plane-to-shore telephone service for passengers was started on international flights of El Al Israel Airlines. Toll: usual transocean rates...