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Under Cover of Oratory. From the top down, the Israelis took special trouble to achieve maximum surprise. That morning David Ben-Gurion, the aging (68) lion of Judah who led the nation to victory in the 1948 war, went before the Knesset in Jerusalem as Israel's Premier-designate. Returning to office with a makeshift majority including both left-wing freethinkers and hardshell Sabbatarians, Ben-Gurion looked rumpled and tired. He made his speech sitting down, paused frequently, and once asked the indulgence of the house while he rested. "I am prepared," he said, "to meet with the Prime...
...Christian schools, mostly in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ramie and Nazareth, were established by the nine major Protestant and the eight major Roman Catholic missions now operating in Israel. Not many Israeli children go to them (about 1,500 of the 300,000 under 14). Those who send their children to the mission schools are mostly poor parents to whom the missions' free hot lunches, free school books (Jewish schools charge parents about $6 a term) and after-school sports are a big inducement. Some better-off Israelis are also attracted by the Catholic schools because they use French...
...Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, headquarters of Conservative Judaism, announced plans to raise $32 million over a ten-year period to establish a Human Brotherhood Center at the seminary, with branches in Los Angeles and Jerusalem. Curriculum of the new center's Institute for Religious and Social Studies will include the areas of belief common to Protestants, Catholics and Jews...
...south of Italy, the rock (9 by 17 miles) has no economic value. But a fine deep harbor on its northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown colony...
...read a plot into some of Nasser's recent moves. Cairo's Voice of the Arabs radio pours a stream of anti-French propaganda into Morocco, and Nasser gives warm asylum to old Riff Rebel Abd el Krim, a key North African troublemaker, as well as to Jerusalem's Jew-hating Mufti. In the Gaza strip he allows, if he does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where he was hailed...