Number of words: 561 Spiders have no wings, but they can take to the air nonetheless. They’ll climb to an exposed point, raise their abdomens to the sky, extrude strands of silk, and float away. This behavior is called ballooning. It might carry spiders away from predators and competitors, or toward new lands with abundant … Read more
Number of words: 873 On October 31, 1832, a young naturalist named Charles Darwin walked onto the deck of the HMS Beagle and realized that the ship had been boarded by thousands of intruders. Tiny red spiders, each a millimeter wide, were everywhere. The ship was 60 miles offshore, so the creatures must have floated over from … Read more
Number of words: 75 There is the story of the Romanian whore who decided to go straight and became engaged to be married. On the eve of her wedding her conscience began to worry her and she went to a Rabbi to ask whether she should tell her fiancé about her past. Yes, said sage, … Read more
Number of words: 137 Israel by her very claim to existence could not have allowed Egypt to blockade her sea-roads, or Syria to continue harassing her settlements. It was equally clear that the United Nations was useless in this situation, and that the great powers either would or could do nothing to change it. Mr … Read more
Number of words: 131 Of the newcomers who arrived in Israel between 1948 and 1962 more than half came from what used to be known as the backward countries of Asia Africa and are now more euphemistically reffered to as the less – developed countries. The former French territories of North Africa which provided a … Read more
Number of words: 85 Israel’s electrol system has the virtue of being democratic. If a party gets, say, 1 per cent of the votes it will get 10 percent of the seats. The lottery element, which one finds in the British system, is removed. It has the serious disadvantage that as the whole country is … Read more
Number of words: 260 Up to 1933 the flow of immigrants stemmed overwhelmingly from eastern Europe, but among them were the occasional idealists or far sighted individuals from Germany or Austria. In 1933 Hitler came to power, thereafter the Jews from Germany and central Europe arrived in a torrent. This was the beginning of the … Read more
Number of words: 134 If convinced of the dignity of labour, the newcomers were not always convinced that there was any dignity in the role of the hired labourer and friction developed between them and their overseers. In 1909 a handful of them undertook the cultivation of a 75 acre area near Tiberias, without overseers, … Read more
Number of words: 320 In 1897 the first Zionist Congress assembled in Basle. The transactions of that historic gathering were perhaps less significant than the gathering itself. For the first time in Jewish history, representatives from Jewish communities throughout the world had assembled to discuss a programme of action for the Jewish people. Zionism, they … Read more
Number of words: 418 Israel is one of the youngest states in the world, and yet it is among the oldest. Other peoples have recovered their independence after centuries of subjugation, but they existed as a compact entity, living on their own soil, speaking their own language, and enjoying a greater or lesser degree of … Read more
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