Word: eshkol
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...weapons purchases. That year she was also named Israel's first minister to Moscow. Golda ran her embassy like a kibbutz, taking her turn at washing dishes. For a decade she was Foreign Minister under Ben-Gurion, with whom she often fought, and then under her friend Levi Eshkol. Ben-Gurion, despite their arguments, once complimented her as "the only man in the Cabinet...
...David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister for most of Israel's first 15 years, resigns and is succeeded by Levi Eshkol...
...Premier Eshkol dies, and is succeeded by Golda Meir...
...ministers. He was David Ben-Gurion's closest counselor during the 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign, and following the war used his cordial relationship with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to help resolve U.S.-Israeli differences. Herzog was director-general of the Premier's office for Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir, service that earned him the sobriquet "the Henry Kissinger of Israel...
...choice for that job of 52% of Israelis. Dayan is a distant runner-up: 20% make him their first choice for Premier and 31% their second choice. Allon got first-choice votes from 8% and second choice from 21%. Political observers note, however, that on the day Premier Levi Eshkol died two years ago, Golda Meir rated poorly in a poll of possible successors...