Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister for most of Israel's first 15 years, resigns and is succeeded by Levi Eshkol...
...Premier Eshkol dies, and is succeeded by Golda Meir...
...ministers. He was David Ben-Gurion's closest counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet "the Henry Kissinger of Israel...
...choice for that job of 52% of Israelis. Dayan is a distant runner-up: 20% make him their first choice for Premier and 31% their second choice. Allon got first-choice votes from 8% and second choice from 21%. Political observers note, however, that on the day Premier Levi Eshkol died two years ago, Golda Meir rated poorly in a poll of possible successors...
Another 3,000 apartments will be built in a sector known as Government House, once the site of British mandate headquarters. Finally, 6,500 apartments will be constructed at Sharafat. Ramat Eshkol and French Hill, two similar new neighborhoods where 5,500 apartments are already occupied, are rented exclusively by Jewish families, but the new projects will include a small number of Arab families. More than 4,000 acres of land-mostly Arab-were expropriated for the housing. "No Arab land was taken that was being put to any use," insists Mayor Kollek. "It was all rock, unusable for agriculture...