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Handy Pretext. A flush of horror and foreboding spread across Israel. The bombing was the most serious anti-Communist incident since Moscow came out in the open with its anti-Jewish campaign (others: the firing of a Soviet bookshop in Jerusalem; a hand-grenade explosion at the Czech legation). This is as bad as the assassination of Count Bernadotte," said a civil servant. Will our people never learn?" Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett rushed a fervent apology to Moscow. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion cut short a vacation to lay the matter before the Knesset. "An abomination was committed by hooligans...
...rabbinate was quick to denounce the booming sales of Judaism's "abominable meat." Last week Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog led religious Israelis through a week of protest. Jerusalem was posted with signs titled "Ye Who Defile," which called both pig eaters and pig breeders "empty, godless people devoid of any respect for Israel or its values." At mass meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, rabbis pronounced an adapted version of an ancient curse: "Accursed be he who raises pigs, his partners, helpers and assistants, and sevenfold curses on him who raises pigs in the Holy Land of Israel...
...Jerusalem flat, Rabbi Klemes let himself down into a comfortable chair and tuned in the radio. "Tonight you will hear a recording of this morning's broadcast from Moscow," said the announcer. Frail old (74) Jacob Klemes, who had slipped out of Russia in 1934 after nine nervous years as Rabbi of Moscow, leaned forward, the better to hear his mother tongue. Half an hour later his housekeeper found him dead...
...Endorsement by Britain, France and the U.S. of the Israeli-supported U.N. resolution for direct Arab-Israeli talks. The Arabs argued that the U.N. should stick instead to its previous insistence that 1) Jerusalem be internationalized (the Jews are now trying to make it their capital), and 2) the 880,000 Arab refugees be allowed to return to their Palestine homes. Aided by Soviet and Latin American votes, the Arab bloc defeated the Israeli motion...
...Jerusalem bus would have had no objection to the two little girls in front of him, except for the fact that they were wearing their blue-and-white school uniforms. That meant that they were students at the Catholic École de Secours de Saint Joseph, and the man could not help exploding. "You are very wicked," he said to the girls, "very wicked for going to a Christian school...