Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's finest. When the peppery little superspy retired in 1963, it was only natural that the government should invite him to continue to make his talents available on an advisory basis. And so it did. Last year Harel became personal adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on matters of state security...
...Your visit is unique," said Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol in the understatement of this or many another year. West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 90, stood in Jerusalem with his old friend ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, 79, and declared: "Your hearty welcome has assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch...
...Mapai Party won 43 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, one more than it had held before the election. With the aid of its traditional allies among the smaller labor, religious and Arab parties, Eshkol should have no trouble when it comes to forming a coalition. Ben-Gurion's Rafi Party, a splinter of the Mapai, formed to challenge Eshkol earlier this year, made a poor showing. Rafi won ten seats, though Ben-Gurion had hoped for 15 or 20. Most observers had thought he would get them too, after Rafi collected 12% of the vote in the September...
...Histadrut elections, in fact, may have been responsible for Mapai's eventual triumph. Shocked by their results, Eshkol fired his campaign managers, revved up his multimillion-dollar campaign. Chief strategist and fund raiser: silver-tongued Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. Publicity director: equally eloquent Deputy Premier Abba Eban, former Ambassador to the United Nations. Eshkol himself campaigned as the candidate of unity and stability, asked only for "four years of quiet to work," and pleasantly referred to Ben-Gurion's shrill taunts as "our little rupture in Mapai." On election day, the Mapai mobilized 60,000 "volunteers...
There was talk of retirement for B-G, but the old man vowed to carry on his fight to save Israel from "Eshkol and his gang." Eshkol himself let it be known that he was willing to welcome back into Mapai any repentant members of Ben-Gurion's prodigal band. Trying hard not to sound smug, Eshkol raised a toast in brandy "L'Hayyim" (to life) and remarked, "Ben-Gurion asked the people to judge. They have judged...