Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While it did very well in its most recent military endeavors, Israel needs economic help. Last week more than 450 leading financiers, manufacturers and economists from 29 countries jetted to Jerusalem for talks on building up Israel's private sector. When the four-day conference ended, Premier Levi Eshkol could declare without over statement that it had "surpassed our most optimistic expectations...
...moneymen were elated over Eshkol's plans for enabling Israel to pay its own way in the world after 20 years of living mostly on bonds and aid from abroad. The country intends to increase overall production by 40% over the next four years and to raise exchange-earning industrial exports by 60%, to $725 million a year. Finance Minister Pinas Sapir frankly called on the visiting group to use its "know-how and connections" to raise much of the $750 million in new capital that would be needed...
Through the Orange Groves. Israel's revenge came as no surprise. Four days before the invasion, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that the Arabs were preparing for a "new wave of terror," which Israel would take steps to contain if King Hussein of Jordan could not. Premier Levi Eshkol told the Knesset much the same thing, and Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah on the same day filed two complaints with the United Nations against the Arabs' "repeated acts of aggression." The stage was set for retaliation...
...being a socialist democracy in which labor is supreme. Of course, there can be too much of a good thing. For the past two years, no fewer than four separate labor parties have played leading roles in Israel's convoluted political life. The most important is Premier Levi Eshkol's Mapai, whose power stems directly from Histadrut, the all-encompassing state labor union. Then there are Achdut Ha 'avodah, a Histadrut splinter party led by Labor Minister Yigal Allon, and Mapam, which leans far to the left. Finally, there is the Rafi party of former Premier David...
Instead, Israel has continued to "consolidate its position"-as Eshkol put it -in the occupied lands. On the Mediterranean coast near El Arish-once the headquarters of Egyptian military forces in the Sinai-scores of bronzed and bearded young Israeli soldiers have staked out a fishing kibbutz that is the first Jewish settlement in the peninsula since Moses led his people out of Egypt. Another colony of Jews has moved into Etzion, in the Hebron hills of Arab Palestine, and a third has begun farming land at Baniyas, below the Golan Heights. In Jerusalem, rabbinical students have set up housekeeping...