Word: arnon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Begin, 68, dropped in on former President Jimmy Carter, 56, and his wife Rosalynn, 54. There to greet his arrival was a crowd of some 1,500, many of them children in yarmulkes, shouting "Shalom!" Begin and Carter seemed outwardly cordial, despite past frustrations over their differences. Said Joel Arnon, Israeli consul general in Atlanta: "They are two strong personalities who both believe they have a direct line...
...automatically adjusted by an employer to compensate for 80% of the inflation rate; the same kind of adjustments are made for personal savings, pensions, State of Israel bonds, life insurance policies, mortgages and accounts. Thus, the real strains did not really start to show until this past year. Says Arnon Gafny, governor of the Bank of Israel: "This is not the type of crisis that brings you to a state of collapse. But it puts restraints on our standard of living, and it makes it much more difficult for us to take care of a variety of other needs." Gafny...