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...happy or productive living outside Israel. Thus believing that a true Zionist must necessarily commit himself to settling in Israel, Ben-Gurion has branded U.S. Zionists as hypocrites, and has fenced for years on the issue with Zionist President Goldmann. Speaking to the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last December, Ben-Gurion threw fresh fuel on the controversy by interjecting a Talmudic passage: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have...
...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...
...claim that he commanded a Loyalist battalion during the Spanish Civil War. Beer's cultural past vanished as quickly. He had not worked as assistant stage manager at Vienna's elegant Burg Theater-even his alleged doctorate in philosophy from Vienna University is now in doubt. The Jerusalem Post ran a baffled headline: WHO is BEER...
More than 500 correspondents from 40 countries flocked to Jerusalem last week for the decade's most publicized trial. From West Germany came Europe's largest single platoon: 45 newsmen. Japan and East Germany each sent six, Russia two, Nigeria one. Among the arrivals were many who had turned journalist just for the occasion: U.S. Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw, whose "incisive understanding of the Nazi mentality" was under contract to Hearst; Indian Poet Dom Moraes, representing Encounter, a British magazine; U.S. Banker Ira Hirschmann for Look...
Short of granting interviews with Eichmann, the Israeli government outdid itself to accommodate the visitors. Censorship was lifted on all trial copy. In and around the courtroom building gleamed $350,000 worth of new transmission facilities, including banks of teletypes staffed by Jerusalem housewives hastily recruited and trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial...