Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Levi Eshkol learned of the attack, he wired apologies to Washington, and offered amends for "the tragic loss of life and material damage...
Such solidarity is not surprising in a nation long inured to the threat of extinction. It also reflects an impatience to get on with the job of peacemaking. Premier Eshkol visited the Sharm el Sheikh garrison, reminded its men that there, on the Strait of Tiran, Nasser's blockade began the trouble. And there he announced that he was ready to talk peace with any Arab leader who would listen. "I hope that my outstretched hand will not be spurned by those who have the power to accept it," he said. Then he vowed that if rebuffed, "Israel...
...stunningly quick victory, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky asked him how he did it. "Well, to start with," said the Israeli Defense Minister, "it helps if you can arrange to fight against Arabs." Lyndon Johnson personally sent a black eyepatch to General Westmoreland. Nasser quit, but Levi Eshkol refused to accept his resignation. At week's end, the New York Times ran a full-page ad for Israel's El Al Airlines: VISIT ISRAEL AND SEE THE PYRAMIDS...
...part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of the King David Hotel. The glass panes in the Israel Museum were blasted out, and the Isaiah Scroll, most complete of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, was hastily moved into its underground vault. Most of the famed Chagall stained-glass windows in the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue were taken down in time, but a hole was blasted in one. Wrote Chagall from France: "I am not worried about the windows, only about the safety of Israel. Let Israel be safe...
...main, however, Eshkol has been criticized more for lack of action than for taking the wrong action. Once, when he was reminiscing about his childhood in the Ukraine, he recalled that in the pogrom that followed the Russo-Japanese War he and his family had spent weeks barricaded inside their home. "I realized in my own immature way that striking back never entered our heads," said Eshkol. "I wished in a desperate kind of way that when I was older I would know what to do." Last week he?and all of Israel?faced the same dilemma. Barricaded inside their...