Word: arnone
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...fund raiser for the Labor Party; since 1973, he has headed Israel's huge Kupat Holim health-insurance program. Yadlin was arrested in mid-October and is now being held by the police under suspicion of corruption and tax fraud. Rabin has withdrawn the Yadlin nomination, naming instead Arnon Gafny, director general of the Finance Ministry, to the bank post...
...Mordecai Gur said serious cuts in defense spending might impair Israel's "chance to win a clear victory in a new war within a reasonable time." But some Israeli doves, who have been relatively silent since the October War, surfaced to protest that line of reasoning. Argued Jacob Arnon, a former Finance Ministry director: "There comes a point when defense spending becomes so enormous that it presents just as much danger to our survival as do our Arab enemies...
Both Donovan and Hortens depend on Joseph Arnon, who also was a map maker-for the British-sponsored survey of Palestine, and subsequently Israel, from 1942 to 1956. Within a few months after Arnon joined TIME 13 years ago, he introduced the time-saving technique of hand-setting type on maps and charts, which replaced the hand-lettering process...