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...shabby old woman, her hair tucked beneath a scarf in the strict Orthodox manner, circulated sadly among the studious rabbis who live close by the Arab sector of Jerusalem. To each she told the same tear-stained story-two relatives of hers, a man & wife, were shortly to be put to death by the Americans...
Ernie King was human, after all. He could not bring himself to take blame for things that went wrong (like the wholesale sinking of allied ships off the East Coast early in 1942). He was a typical tourist, delighting in side trips to the antiquities of Egypt and Jerusalem, and flights over Bagdad and Damascus, even in the darkest days of war. And he had the G.I.'s souvenir-hunting spirit: at Teheran, he tried to "liberate" one of Stalin's desk-pad doodles, and was miffed when a Briton beat...
...TIME, the popular American weekly, dedicated this week 67 lines to the Hakhel ceremonies in Jerusalem. In their same issue there is an item of only 40 lines, on the Foreign Ministry bomb. In the Israel press the proportion was inverse. It appears that the foreign press can better appreciate what is eternal and constant in a nation's life than what is passable...
Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
Today, except for a handful of Israeli guards, the bastion-like buildings of Mount Scopus stand empty. But below in Jerusalem, the life of the university goes on. Professors hold classes in rented storerooms and hallways. Scientists carry on their research in makeshift laboratories converted out of bathrooms. Students squeeze into the back rooms of 30 different buildings, scattered over the length & breadth of the city...