Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop Arab terrorist operations, which by last month had risen to an average of four incidents a day. "The Syrians are not good pupils," said Israel's army chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin. "They do not learn from their mistakes." Unless the terrorism stopped immediately, warned Premier Levi Eshkol at the beginning of last week, "we may have to adopt measures no less drastic than those of April...
Telegraphed Punch. To the Damascus regime, Eshkol's meaning was all too clear. Syria declared a state of emergency, instructed its ambassador to the U.N., George Tomeh, to announce that "Syria expects an attack from Israel" -and demanded that Nasser come to its rescue. Nasser has no desire to take on the powerful Israeli army, which he knows is more than a match for all the Arab forces combined. His military interests, furthermore, lie not in Israel but in Yemen and in the South Arabian Federation, which is due to receive its independence from Britain next year. Despite...
...same time, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said Israel would defend its right to ship through he Gulf of Aquaba, which Egypt has declared off-limits to Israeli boats...
...Scandal." By last week the uproar had boiled into a potential threat to Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...
...soon as he learned of the story, Israeli Minister of Justice Jacob Shapiro ordered all copies of Bui confiscated and the two editors thrown in jail-nominally for espionage, but actually because Premier Levi Eshkol feared mention of any link between Arab Morocco and Israel. Eshkol had privately told a group of editors, not including Bui's, that Israel had helped organize the Moroccan secret service in return for fair treatment of Moroccan Jews. Later, Eshkol said, the Moroccans had asked Israel to help kidnap Ben Barka, but Israel had refused to commit itself. Even so, if word...