Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside Tel Aviv there were a few minor attacks during the week. But on Sabbath night, inside the cordoned area, came a spectacular defiance of the British military. Terrorists besieged the heavily fortified local headquarters for Hippo, rained mortar and machine-gun fire from roofs and nearby windows on it for 75 minutes. When the smoke cleared, the British announced the toll: one Briton killed, four Jews killed, 15 wounded...
Early in the afternoon of Sabbath eve two British minesweepers spotted their quarry entering Palestine's territorial waters near Haifa. She was a battered, 750-ton freighter jampacked with 1,350 Jewish refugees from Europe bent on entering the Holy Land. She had had a long, hard voyage-30 days from Goteborg, Sweden, which she had cleared as a Greek ship (the Ulua), bound for South America. Now she flew the blue-and-white Zionist flag and her bridge carried a freshly painted name: Chaim Arlosoroff (in honor of a murdered Palestine labor leader...
...They passed Barclay's Bank Building, shattered by a bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...
Death in the Afternoon. The Sabbath in Jerusalem was clear and sunny. About 40 British officers and their guests lunched at Goldsmith House, the three-story officers' club on King George Avenue. Afterwards, half a dozen went to the roof for sun baths; some retired for siestas. The rest left. Sir Henry Gurney, Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government, kept a golf date...
Whereupon the Russian replied: "This is indeed outstanding and should be preached everywhere." And thereafter in that town none was asked to work on the Sabbath...