Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF troops garrisoning the Egyptian base at Sharm el Sheikh. UNEF fired an answering rocket in recognition. "A historic day!" cried Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol as the tanker began pumping its cargo into newly finished tanks on the barren shore. Israeli crowds went wild with excitement, dancing the Hora, and the national radio interrupted its Sabbath music program to announce the great news...
...striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed in industry, technology and science. Yet professional workers are involved in a constant and exhausting struggle for economic survival." Finance Minister Levi Eshkol's reply was to say that the nation could not afford raises. Besides, he added. "I would rather burn the money than hand it over to the professionals...
...Unless economic reforms are made, warns one of Israel's top economists, the country faces an "even more serious inflation than in 1951." Even with exports at record levels, Israel's imports run three times as high. The tremendous trade gap, admits Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, "is causing anxiety." If Israel now gets involved in a sizable increase in its arms spending, its finances will be further out of joint. The question arises, must Israel continue to live requiring help from the outside? If so, can it be indifferent to the opinion of U.S. Jews...
...prejudice, least of all against these poor people." From Israel, which is now losing more settlers than it is taking in (34,000 have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere since Israel became a state), came harsher words. "Emigrants have no title to sympathy," said Finance Minister Levi Eshkol. "Those who found sufficient funds for sea passage could have done quite well here with the energy and money used to arrange their emigration...