Word: eshkol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector. No part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of The King David Hotel...
Levinger was the founder of Qiryat Arba. Shortly after the 1967 war, he led a group of his followers, posing as Swiss tourists, to Hebron, where they squatted in the Park Hotel until the Labor government of Premier Levi Eshkol gave them permission to settle in a nearby military encampment. Once their presence was established, the squatters pushed for permanent quarters. In due course, Qiryat Arba, a fortress-like project of high-rise apartments, shops, synagogues and schools, was built by the government at a cost of $50 million...