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Ooohhh!' She couldn't say any
more. She had to sit down on the
stoop to catch her breath.
Mike’s face didn’t look smiling
any more. His mouth and chin
looked straight and tough like Dick
Tracy’s. He said. “I’ll check on the
Island Street gang. It might have
been one of them.” After making
sure once more that everyone was
all right he went away.
Lily couldn’t stay out any more
that night. The rest of us didn’t feel
any too good either. We sat around
and talked for a while and then
decided to wait until Mike came
back with the news.
When Mike came back later he
spoke to us in the same good-
natured voice but when we pressed
him to tell us about the kid with
the stick of fire, he didn't have
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Isaac Carmel, back from Israel,
tells how a boy in Israel was ex
plaining to a younger child the va
rious stages of life. First, he said,
one plays and goes to school, then
one gets a job and earns some mon
ey, then one marries and raises a
family and finally one gets old and
speaks Yiddish.
David Ben Gurion’s retirement to
the Negeb has occasioned Biblical
parallels. In days of old, Davis,
walking in the desert, heard the
Divine voice and said. "I am David,
the son of Jesse, a simple shep
herd.” And the Divine voice said,
“Blessed are thou, David, for thou
shalt be king of Israel.”
Today, David Ben Gurion walk
ing in the desert, hearing the Divine
voice, said, “I am David Ben Gur
ion. former Prime Minister.” And
the Divine voice responded,
"Blessed are thou, David, for thou
wilt become a simple shepherd.”
Mr. Carmel tells of a vaudeville
skit which he saw in Israel—woven
around the theme that Ben Gurion’s
coming to Sdeh Boker bankrupted
that settlement. When he arrived at
the desert outpost the community
presented Ben Gurion with a tele
vision set.
“The others have no television
sets and I will not take one,” said
Ben Gurion.
What to do? The settlers decided
that to get Ben Gurion to accept the
television set a similar set would
be given to each member of the
community.
The same thing happened when
they tried to present Ben Gurion
with a refrigerator. Also, the set
tlers, solicitous for the health of
Ben Gurion, insisted that he cut his
anything to say about it except that
he wasn’t sure who it might be.
He made us promise not to go
fighting that night but to turn in
because it was getting too late for
us to stay out, anyway, holiday or
no holiday.
We turned in, but on the way up
the stairs, Joey and Louie and my
self whispered a few plans of at
tack.
I don’t know how they would
have turned out because the next
day I didn’t feel like doing anything
else but brood. It was the day
Mama told me that we were going
to move.
So instead of the attack I was
thinking of a hundred different rea
sons to tell Papa why I didn't want
to move away from Carney Street.
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working period to four hours a day.
"The others work eight hours and
I will not be an exception,” said
Ben Gurion.
So to induce Ben Gurion to work
only four hours, it was decided that
no one in the settlement should
work more than four hours.
That’s how Ben Gurion bankrupt
ed Sdeh Boker.
I hasten to add that this is pure
fiction, of course. In fact, with the
assistance of Israel bonds, and the
presence of the former Prime Min
ister, Sdeh Boker is looking for
ward to speeded-up development.
Carmel is very enthusiastic about
Israel, but he says there was one
resident of Israel who was even
more enthusiastic than himself — a
non-Jewish woman from Ireland.
It’s rather peculiar, too, that she
should be such a booster for Israel,
for the Irish are noted for their
almost extravagant love of their
own Ireland. The lady to whom
Carmel refers is the wife of one
of the pilots of an Israel plane.
If he had anything to do with the
Israel bond campaign, said Carmel,
he would bring her to the U. S. for
a speaking tour. She makes no pre
tense of being a speaker, but he
never met such fervor for Israel
as hers.
Another wheeze making the
rounds in Israel today is of the Jew
from an Alaskan town who settled
in Israel. “I was the only Jew in
my city in Alaska,” he said on set
tling in Israel.
“So you mean,” he was asked,
“there are no more Jews there.”
“Oh yes,” he replied, “the Jew
ish population there today is two.
There are two Shelichim from Is
rael.”
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