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Celebrating its third anniversary, Israel showed off its tough little army last week. Through Jerusalem, scorched by a fierce sun and blistering Khamsin (desert wind) which prostrated dozens of marchers, rumbled Sherman tanks, armored cars and heavy artillery, in a brief violation of the 1949 armistice agreement demilitarizing the Holy City...
...churches set up by the early Christians, the Jews did not think of synagogues as houses of God, nor were they served by priests. This honor was reserved for the Temple. Since the last Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. in the siege of Jerusalem, Jews have recognized no Temple in Judaism (though Conservative and Reform Jews call their synagogues temples). The synagogues, originated as study and worship centers during the exile in Babylon, have kept the faith alive...
During his long reign, Herod went up to Jericho to escape the damp, chilly winters of Jerusalem. Across the Jordan at Shuneh, King Abdullah still has a winter palace. But Professor Pritchard's discoveries suggest that not even modern royalty lives in comparable luxury...
...canvas at Sainte Anne de Beaupre in Canada, of the death of Christ on the Cross and the aspect of the City of Jerusalem and its environs on that day, is 360 ft. in circumference and 45 ft. high...
...already threatening to occupy a hundred times that area. Iran's Premier Hussein Ala called the plague the worst in 80 years. Several other Middle East countries were suffering from the locust invasion, which might bring widespread famine in its train. The Israeli government announced over the Jerusalem radio that every adult and every vehicle in that country would be mobilized if locust swarms headed in that direction. In Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli, in the Sudan, the Gold Coast, French Equatorial Africa, locust-control officers had been warned...