Word: eshkol
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...accused Lebanon, which had served as the gunmen's point of departure, of harboring the terrorists. At a meeting in Jerusalem, senior cabinet ministers split over whether to raid Beirut airport or attack one of three guerrilla camps that the Israelis claim are located in Lebanon. Premier Levi Eshkol cast his vote with the hardliners: it would be Beirut...
...fedayeen terrorism, Israel quickly blamed Lebanon. The terrorists, said a Tel Aviv statement, had flown to Athens from Beirut's airport, and belonged to a group of Arab saboteurs based in Lebanon. "The mark of Cain is on the heads of the perpetrators," declared Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. The Middle East has learned to take such Israeli warnings seriously, and Lebanon braced for some sort of reprisal. It came within 48 hours, but on a scale no one would have dared predict...
...fedayeen nonetheless succeeded in their purpose of inciting the Israelis and further lessening hopes of peace in the area. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that "the full responsibility for this horrendous incident falls on the head of the Arab states." In the Middle East's familiar dialectic of attack and reprisal, that verdict seemed to leave in doubt only the time and place of Israel's retaliation...
...ordinary economic rules, Israel ought to be in receivership. After more than a decade of living beyond its means, the country skidded into a deep recession in 1965 when Premier Levi Eshkol's anti-inflationary slowdown proved too abrupt. Unemployment jumped to 10%, and the government for the first time in its history was forced to put the jobless on the dole...
There are several reasons for the recovery. For all its drawbacks, Eshkol's policy of restraint has forced Israel's powerful labor unions to hold the wage line. In the months between the June war and the end of 1967, worldwide sales of Israel bonds and United Jewish Appeal contributions pumped some $550 million into the economy. Though those sources are thinning out-they are expected to yield only $230 million for all of 1968-such overseas friends as the Rothschilds and Sir Isaac Wolfson, the British retailing magnate, are currently spurring a drive for new investment capital...