Word: eshkol
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When Israeli troops occupied the West Bank of the Jordan in 1967, Israel's leading archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, was able to fulfill a dream. Pulling strings with Premier Levi Eshkol, he got the army to assign an officer to visit a certain antiquities dealer in Bethlehem.* Under pressure, the dealer opened a hiding place under the floor of his shop and surrendered an ancient, partially worm-eaten scroll...
...fissionable material necessary for an Abomb. Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres, then Deputy Defense Minister and currently Israel's Defense Minister, favored doing so. Others, including Mrs. Meir and Yigal Allon, now Israel's Foreign Minister, initially opposed the project. So did Ben-Gurion's successor as Premier, Levi Eshkol. The Israeli equivalent of the U.S. National Security Council vetoed the separation-plant project in early 1968. Shortly afterward, Eshkol discovered that Dayan ?in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War ?had secretly ordered the start of construction on an S.P. Eshkol and his advisers felt that...
...most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms and industrialization. A behind-the-scenes political broker in Israel's ruling Labor Party, he was instrumental in the rise of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir and Israel's current Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. A self-proclaimed dove, Sapir favored giving up captured Arab territory in return for an early Middle East peace agreement. After leaving the government last year, he devoted his energies to running the Jewish Agency, which encourages Jews round the world...
...Palestinians on the West Bank understand the problem." Yafeh continues. "Several years ago, when West Bank Palestinian leaders met with Prime Minister Eshkol, they said. 'Do you think Nasser or Hussein care about us? They care only about their careers. If there is another war, whoever wins, we will be the losers. Our two nations--Palestinians and Israelis--must coexist,' they continued. 'We have a lot of claims, but our two nations have to solve the problems ourselves...
...After Eshkol's death in 1969, she had to be persuaded by party members to succeed him as Premier. In that post, she opened the way for immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel, forged ties of friendship and aid with Jews round the world, and strengthened Israel's relationship with the U.S., its principal ally and armorer. But she took comparatively little interest in domestic affairs and often failed to detect unrest at home. Oriental Jews in particular complained of their treatment as second-class citizens in Israel. When young Sephardic Jews organized themselves as "Black Panthers" three...