Word: aharon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cousin who was hanged was a good man. Some of the most important men in Iraq came to his store. He was very, very far from politics." The speaker was Benjamin Aharon, 51, who left Baghdad in the early 1950s as did more than 100,000 fellow Jews, and now lives in Israel. Although his family had lived in Baghdad and Basra for centuries, he had no regrets about leaving. "We were all suspected of being spies for Israel, but we did nothing, nothing . . . They are Nazis." The 2,500 Jews who remain in Iraq today live under a reign...
Three Rooms & a Plymouth. Because rapid economic growth is its overriding objective, Histadrut plows back into development all its profits, which amounted to about $50 million in 1964. "Our profit is the development of the country," says Aharon Becker, 59, secretary general of Histadrut and chairman of Hevrat Ovdim. Becker forgoes pay for his jobs, lives instead on his $400-a-month as Knesset Deputy. Though one of Israel's five most powerful leaders, he prefers the anonymity of his 1962 grey Plymouth and three-room apartment in Tel Aviv's workers' housing development...