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Pare Two
Friday, May 14, 1965
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
OFF THE RECORD .... by Nathan Ziprin
Reflections on a Birthday
As Israel marks its seventeenth
birthday, we take pride in the de
velopment of the Jewish State but
we may also note a historical
gain. Helping in the building of
Israel’s future, we are learning
more of the past. More and more,
the Bible is taking on a special
vividness.
No work has been studied as
the Bible. Every word has been
scrutinized, put under the micro
scope so to speak, analyzed ^nd
re-analyzed a hundred and more
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times. Yet the seventeen short
years of Israel’s establishment
have done a great deal more in
many respects than much of the
theorizing.
For long, for example, Bible
critics maintained that the refer
ences to the mines in ancient Is
rael were to be taken figurative
ly, but the State was hardly
established before the King Solo
mon mines were discovered.
Other instances of the progress
focussing light on the past and
making it alive again are exhibit
ed in the building of the new
Negev city of Arad and, especial
ly, in the building of the city of
Ashdod.
There are many colorful stories
in the Bible but few surpass that
of the story of Ashdod told in
Samuel. I. There the Philistines
dwelt, one of the five strongholds
of the Philistines. The Greeks
spoke of the Philistines with re
spect as a great seafaring nation,
and the Israelis had reason to fear
them. They had been badly smit
ten by the Philistines. The Phili
stines worshipped an idol, Dagon.
And the invisible God whom the
Israelites worshipped had seemed
powerless against him. When the
Philistines captured the Ark of
the Covenant, they gloated that
the “glory” of the Jewish God was
gone. Yet strangely enough, soon
after, the fear of Israel’s invisible
God came upon the Philistines
and they returned the Ark of the
Covenant with a guilt offering.
The Philistines by their hosti-
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lity were largely responsible for
Israel’s forcing itself into a mili
tary nation. It was with the trou
bles of the Philistines that Saul
and, later, David emerged to lead
Israel to victory.
The Philistines have long pass
ed out of history. For some cen
turies, Ashdod continued as a
poor Moslem town, but even that
stage has long passed. For cen
turies, it was no more than a
name, but now it is to be a port
city eclipsing anything the Phi
listines dreamed of.
The breakwaters to deepen the
harbor, giving it a capacity equal
to that of San Francisco, are to be
completed this year. Along with
the work in the harbor, there is
going on simultaneous construc
tion of factories, homes and
schools, looking forward to a city
eventually expected to have a
population of 300,000 or more.
The total cost of the Ashdod pro
ject is 75 million dollars, and it
is being financed by a loan from
the World Bank and by funds
ejerived from Israel Bonds.
The development of the port
ties in with the development of
Israel’s merchant marine. Truly,
as has recently been said by Dr.
Joseph Schwartz of the Israel
Bond Organization, the Arab boy
cott has forced Israel to develop
a large merchant marine.
In ancient days, it was the Phi
listines who roamed the seas
while the Israelites dwelt for the
most part in the interior of the
country. In the new Israel, the
Israelites are quite altering the
role. It is the Israelites who are
to be the mariners.
Israel in terms of years is still
in infancy. But such have been
its accomplishments and strivings
over the short but history-preg
nant years, that even a world in
trouble finds time to stand in ad
miration. The pitfalls are many
for the land, not alone because of
Arab hostility but because of a
world situation that seems to
elude solution, but if the world
does not blow up Israel is yet to
write a most radiant chapter in
history.
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