Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rabbi Esor Winer Ben-Sorek...
Some of the heaviest pressure on Begin was coming from within his Cabinet. Interior Minister Yosef Burg, Welfare and Labor Minister Aharon Uzan and Minister Without Portfolio Mordechai Ben-Porat publicly announced that they would demand a full commission of inquiry at a formal meeting of the Cabinet. The implication was clear: the government would fall if those ministers withdrew their support. Even Begin seemed to realize that defiance was hopeless. On the eve of the crucial Cabinet meeting, his aides passed the word that he was receptive to the idea of a judicial probe...
Ever since Israel's birth as a nation in 1948, the Israel Defense Forces have enjoyed a position of uncommon esteem both in the country and beyond. David Ben-Gurion once remarked that the I.D.F. was perhaps his nation's most successful achievement. The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies this year rated the Israeli military as the fourth most powerful in the world. Yet today, in the wake of the Beirut massacre, many among the I.D.F.'s 172,000 regulars and 504,000 reservists are deeply demoralized...
...Prime Minister and the Defense Minister were struck dumb. Their silence thundered as it pained. The fate of Israel, David Ben-Gurion said, is dependent on its strength and its righteousness. Righteousness, not just strength, has to guide our deeds...
...down hair, is Laurence Olivier as the general, unable to cut loose either with an approximation of MacArthur's grand manner or the satire of it he seems sometimes to want to try. On the ground in Korea, caught in a withering enfilade of clichés, is Ben Gazzara as an officer with no unit, no fixed duties and an inexplicable relationship to the general that permits him to witness all sorts of unedifying carnage. He has an estranged wife (rather gamely played by Jacqueline Bisset), whose function it is to become a refugee so that...