Word: ben-gurion
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Dynamic and eloquent, Peres seems well suited for the job. In the last Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir, he served as Transport Minister. Before that, Peres had been director general in the Defense Ministry, as a protégé of Premier David Ben-Gurion, then became Deputy Minister of Defense to Dayan...
ISRAEL. While President Nixon was visiting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, no one was following his progress more anxiously than Premier Yitzhak Rabin and the other members of Israel's new government. From the moment he was due to arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday afternoon, Nixon had the job of persuading the Israelis that he had not sold them out to buy favor with the Arabs...
...thing, it had taken several hours for the Israelis to round up the prisoners to be released, since they were being held in ten different jails. There was also a problem in trying to get a United Nations plane from Cairo that would ferry the prisoners from Ben-Gurion Airport to Damascus. Compounding the confusion was the fedayeen's complicated plan for effecting the release of the prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown to Damascus. There, a code word (Al Aqsa, from the famous mosque of Jerusalem) would be given to the French...
...moved to Palestine in 1921 to join the Zionist movement there. Eventually, David Ben-Gurion persuaded her to Hebraize her name to Meir, which means "illumination." She bore a son and a daughter to her husband Morris, a lukewarm Zionist from whom she was later separated (he has since died). Mrs. Meir preferred politics to housekeeping and joined the Histadrut, the Jewish Labor Federation. Her rise after that in the government and Labor Party was swift...
...Middle East war, she raised millions in the U.S. for Israeli weapons purchases. That year she was also named Israel's first minister to Moscow. Golda ran her embassy like a kibbutz, taking her turn at washing dishes. For a decade she was Foreign Minister under Ben-Gurion, with whom she often fought, and then under her friend Levi Eshkol. Ben-Gurion, despite their arguments, once complimented her as "the only man in the Cabinet...