Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the first interview she has granted since Eshkol's death, Mrs. Meir added: "As long as the Arabs won't sit down with us, that means they don't accept our existence. Nasser must conclude that peace is not something he can give to Israel as a luxury or fulfillment of its need, but as something at least as necessary for his people as for the Israelis. It's not a present for him to give to us. It's something that his children, the children in the Nile valley, need...
Prosperity and Pogroms. Eshkol himself was probably the last long-term leader from the old guard, meaning, in Israeli terms, the early European immigrants who have long provided the nation's elite, often to the frustration of the impatient native-born sabras. His early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer...
...chief lieutenant to Ben-Gurion, Eshkol served the government first as Director-General of the Defense Department, then as the Agriculture Minister, meanwhile heading the agency charged with settling the successive waves of immigrants on the land. But it was as Finance Minister from 1952 to 1963 that he most indelibly left his own imprint on Israel. Reining in the country's perennial inflation, he welcomed private investment and restructured the economy toward the technology-based industries that are flourishing today...
According to a cruel gibe at the time, Eshkol became Premier "to prove that Israel could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
Died. Levi Eshkol, 73, third Premier of Israel (see THE WORLD...