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...like a pricked balloon. "The first night of operations," Ben-Gurion told the Knesset, "we took Kuntilla after twenty minutes of resistance, Ras el Naqb near Elath after a brief engagement and Quseima after forty-five minutes . . ." Only once, at the crucial road junction of Abu Aweigila on the Jerusalem-Ismailia highway, did Egyptian armor and artillery succeed in stalling the Israeli advance (TIME, Nov. 12). Tough Moshe Dayan, dashing about Sinai in a command car from hotspot to hotspot, promptly took charge. "Our infantry was inching along taking casualties under heavy artillery fire," he said later. "About...
...with a virus infection and 102° temperature the day his troops struck into the Sinai peninsula, was a deeply happy man, hailed by his people. Though pale and sweat-beaded with fever, he appeared in the jammed, jubilant Knesset, and with rapt crowds listening at loudspeakers all over Jerusalem, triumphantly reviewed "the glorious military operation that lasted seven days...
From the British and French ambassadors in Jerusalem came word that the U.S. had informed their countries that it "would not feel compelled to take action" in case of a Soviet attack on their Suez and Cyprus forces. Accordingly, they told Ben-Gurion they could promise him no support if he insisted on holding Sinai. From Washington Ambassador Abba Eban telephoned urging moderation and reporting that President Eisenhower was sending a personal message asking the Prime Minister to back down so as to give the Russians no pretext for intervention...
Again the Guerrillas. At this stunning reversal, requiring surrender of conquests almost three times the country's size, the flush of victory vanished from Israel. "It took us only one week to conquer the Sinai desert," said a Jerusalem schoolteacher, "and only one day to lose it." Perhaps Ben-Gurion never intended to keep Sinai ("We want no more desert"), but he had obviously hoped to bargain with it for his minimum demands: 1) peace on the border; 2) possession of the Gaza Strip and of islands in the Gulf of Aqaba; 3) the right to move Israeli cargoes...
Genesis describes Sarah, the wife of Abraham, as "very fair," then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the head of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...