Word: ben-gurion
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...During Mossad's early years, he directed the 1960 capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who had for years been living under an assumed name in Argentina and was later tried and executed in Israel. Harel recalled dragging Eichmann back to Israel and walking into Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's office with the message "I brought you a present...
...Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva, Israel. In the 1975 book The House on Garibaldi Street, which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian spy. You might as well admit...
...diagnosis made decades ago. They were up against a Zionist ideology that saw Holocaust victims as weaklings who had gone "like sheep to the slaughter" - unlike the strong "new Jew" Israel's founders hoped to create. Holocaust survivors were treated with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived in the Jewish state after the deal was done. But Israel soon found...
...Sharon imagines a muscular sort of peace, Peres, despite all the setbacks, still dreams of something softer. Peres and Sharon go back more than a half-century; as a defense ministry official, Peres introduced the firebrand young officer to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, in 1948. Now--sometimes comrades, sometimes rivals--the two are vying to see whose vision for peace will triumph. In his Tel Aviv office Friday morning, the 78-year-old Foreign Minister rubbed his lined face tiredly and hunched over a cup of strong, bitter black coffee that Israelis call botz...
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