Word: eshkol
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...months, Ben-Gurion has been keeping a grueling political schedule that would make a far younger man feel six score years of age. On the day before his birthday, he harangued a crowd of 3,000 in the Red Sea port of Elath on the failure of Premier Levi Eshkol to develop the Negev, then gave a two-hour evening lecture on other Eshkol shortcomings. In prep aration for Israel's general elections on Nov. 2, Ben-Gurion has founded a new party called Rafi and is seeking to wrest the balance of power in the Knesset (Parliament) from...
...Affair? Just why he has chosen to make the effort is a subject of some controversy in Israel. In 1963 he "retired" to Sde Boker and handed the Premiership and leadership in the dominant Mapai party over to Finance Minister Eshkol. Then, last year he demanded that Eshkol reopen the somno lent "Lavon Affair," which had begun in 1955, when Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon was fired for his supposed responsibility in an abortive anti-Egyptian sabotage plot-and ended, as far as Eshkol was concerned, when an official inquiry in 1961 cleared Lavon...
...little like introducing chicken soup to matzo balls, perhaps, but on opening night at Jaffa's Alhambra Theater, practically everyone who was anyone in Israel was there: Premier Lev! Eshkol, Foreign Minister Golda Meir and the rest of the nation's official mishpachah. And when the curtain came down on the Hebrew adaptation of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, who should rush backstage but the Premier himself. Said Eshkol after toasting the cast: "Nu, nu, it's not exactly Sholom Aleichem, but I have never enjoyed an evening in the theater so much...
...Jerusalem hill blasted by sun bright as sheet lightning. Israel's new $5,500,000 national museum opened last week to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Said Premier Levi Eshkol, recalling Noah's sons, "The museum will introduce something of the beauty of Japheth into the tents of Shem." Although the museum hardly has two of everything, it is an ark for art in the Middle East...
Purim holiday, angry pickets outside the Knesset were in no festive mood as they jostled police and waved placards denouncing the government motion. But for all the emotionalism, in the end Eshkol's plea for wise hearts-along with party discipline-prevailed; by a vote of 66 to 29, with 10 abstentions, the Knesset voted to establish diplomatic ties with West Germany...