BRIEF AUS ISRAEL: Hiobs Bund mit den Steinen
LETTER FROM ISRAEL: Job's League with the Stones

Summary/Abstract: „The state of Israel", an official in Jerusalem recently said, "is not an ordinary melting pot but a high-pressure cooker." Since the state's formation almost four years ago, a colorful and almost overwhel-ming stream of immigrants has entered the country. When the State of Israel was established on May 4, 1948, 651,000 Jews lived here. In the past four years this figure has increased to more than double. The majority of the Jews who had immigrated to Palestine from 1918 to 1939 consisted of convinced Zionists, who, following a pronounced inner impulse, were settling in the country by a hard training for life as colonists. After the last war, the survivors of the European concentration camps and the im-poverished inhabitants of the Middle Eastern and North African ghettoes came to a large extent. This "gathering of the exiles," as the Zionists call it, is the pride of the young state, the moral foundation of its existence, but also its heavy burden and the cause of growing despair.

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