Word: eshkol
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...stunningly quick victory, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky asked him how he did it. "Well, to start with," said the Israeli Defense Minister, "it helps if you can arrange to fight against Arabs." Lyndon Johnson personally sent a black eyepatch to General Westmoreland. Nasser quit, but Levi Eshkol refused to accept his resignation. At week's end, the New York Times ran a full-page ad for Israel's El Al Airlines: VISIT ISRAEL AND SEE THE PYRAMIDS...
...years since he climbed off a tramp steamer at Jaffa (wearing his brass-buttoned school uniform and carrying a change of clothes in a sack), Levi Eshkol has been active in almost every part of the development of the Jewish state. He helped found a kibbutz (Degania B) in a malaria swamp on the Sea of Galilee and was a delegate to the founding conference of Histadrut, Israel's powerful labor organization, which now controls some 47% of the economy. A congenial man who speaks six languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, English and French), he was a frequent shaliah (emissary...
...Gurion tried to see to it that he was. After being rebuffed in his attempts by the laborite Mapai Party, which he had founded, B-G rallied his old friends around him to form a new political party and set out to defeat Eshkol in the 1965 parliamentary elections. Even with Dayan at his side, he did not come close. Eshkol, with organized labor behind him, swamped Ben-Gurion at the polls, put together a solid government coalition in Parliament that could outvote the combined opposition by nearly...
Despite the proportions of Eshkol's victory, it brought Israel no more than a brief period of political peace. Hard after the elections came the first signs that the economic boom was ending. At first, Eshkol was in full control, correctly arguing that Israel would simply have to learn to live within its means. But then he made the mistake of bowing to labor demands for a general wage increase, which could only contribute to the inflation he professed to oppose. He made other mistakes as well. Driven to distraction by the increase in border terrorism, he lunged out wildly...
...main, however, Eshkol has been criticized more for lack of action than for taking the wrong action. Once, when he was reminiscing about his childhood in the Ukraine, he recalled that in the pogrom that followed the Russo-Japanese War he and his family had spent weeks barricaded inside their home. "I realized in my own immature way that striking back never entered our heads," said Eshkol. "I wished in a desperate kind of way that when I was older I would know what to do." Last week he?and all of Israel?faced the same dilemma. Barricaded inside their...