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...settlement gave Israel important roads and railroads to link Haifa and Tel Aviv with Jerusalem. King Abdullah got Israel's recognition that he was the dominant power in Arab Palestine. More important still, both countries guaranteed each other's "security and freedom from fear of attack by the armed forces of the other." With only the Syrian armistice still to be negotiated, Ralph Bunche thought he would soon return...
...Palestine controlled by the victorious Israeli army. Jews-most of them refugees from Europe themselves-have taken over the Arabs' communities, where they now work Arab land, live in Arab houses and even use Arab cooking utensils. One such community is Akir, a village on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which TIME Correspondent John Luter visited last week. Here is Luter's report...
...thorny questions of Jerusalem's status and the disposition of 500,000 Arab refugees* still had to be settled. Israel's other Arab neighbors, Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan, must be satisfied, and Syria, in particular, was showing signs of unabated bitterness. But the confident Israeli were not expecting trouble from anyone. A quip going the rounds of Tel Aviv last week: "Armistice applications accepted only during business hours...
Although last year's United Nations resolution demanded that Jerusalem be made an international city, the Israelis pointedly chose it for the opening ceremony of their newly elected Constituent Assembly. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionism's elder statesman, last week solemnly opened the Assembly. When the band struck up Hatikvah (the Israeli national anthem) during the ceremonies, the tired old (74) man seemed off in a dream; a military aide had to nudge him before he came to life again. Facing the Assembly, he wept. Said he: "It is our people that once gave the whole world a spiritual...
Three days later, the Knesset elected Chaim Weizmann Israel's first President (so far, his office has been provisional). He was given a ten-inch silver key to the city and a pair of 17th Century scissors to cut the ceremonial ribbon across the road leading to Jerusalem. For Weizmann, as for his Zionists, it had been a long road...