Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Washington last week World Bank President Eugene Black announced that there was "a good chance" that his organization would give the Israeli economy another boost by lending Israel $27.5 million toward construction of a $46 million Mediterranean harbor at the old Philistine port of Ashdod. The port would handle Israel's growing citrus trade, as well as products (potash, phosphates and other minerals) now being extracted in growing volume from the Negev desert...
Nasser was moved to wrath by a recent, offhand press-conference remark by the Shah of Iran, who said that though Iran does not formally recognize Israel, it does recognize the Israeli government de facto. Iran is not an Arab nation, but it is a Moslem one, and Nasser thought that this was letting down the side. Nasser also knew that for some time Iranian oil has been secretly sold to Israel, in defiance of the Arab League boycott which U.S. oil companies generally adhere...
Iran's oil need not travel through Nasser's Suez Canal. It can be unloaded at Israel's Red Sea port of Elath, on the Gulf of Aqaba. This week a new, 16-in. pipeline across the Negev desert will connect Elath with Israel's big refinery at Haifa. Designed to carry 1,700,000 tons of oil a year, it can in time be stepped up to a 5,800,000-ton capacity. Since Israel itself uses only 1,500,000 tons of oil a year, the Israel pipeline offers the possibility of sending Middle...
...Young Israel Synagogue in Cleveland, is that it threatens the philosophical underpinnings of liberal Judaism, which was founded largely on the ethical rationalism of 19th century German thought. Liberal Jews set small store by the Law; some Reform congregations have little to distinguish them from Unitarians. Existentialism, with its distrust of reason and its emphasis on the irrational and emotional nature of man's fear-filled, striving experience of life, points Jews as well as Christians back to the intangibles of the Old Testament, where religion has little to do with peace of mind or making the world...
Moreover, Jesus is loathed by everyone in Nazareth because, as a carpenter, he makes crosses on which the hated Romans crucify the prophets that rise periodically to liberate Israel. He struggles against God's call, but eventually he finds that he must surrender. And so his ministry begins, first in the preaching of love and forgiveness, then, after his baptism-by a wonderfully wild and frightening John the Baptist-in his stern proclamation that the end of the world is at hand...