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Another 3,000 apartments will be built in a sector known as Government House, once the site of British mandate headquarters. Finally, 6,500 apartments will be constructed at Sharafat. Ramat Eshkol and French Hill, two similar new neighborhoods where 5,500 apartments are already occupied, are rented exclusively by Jewish families, but the new projects will include a small number of Arab families. More than 4,000 acres of land-mostly Arab-were expropriated for the housing. "No Arab land was taken that was being put to any use," insists Mayor Kollek. "It was all rock, unusable for agriculture...
...politics. During the 1948 war for independence, Sapir went abroad to raise the funds to buy the guns. Thereafter he served as the moneyman for both the government and the party, building up a strong political machine in the process. Two years ago, when the late Premier Levi Eshkol first fell ill and the Labor Party secretariat met to discuss a successor, Sapir designated Golda Meir. Three months later, when Eshkol died, the choice became fact...
...Irgun Zvai Leumi in pre-independence days, appeared to be digging in his heels for both principle and politics. Elected to the first Knesset after independence, he has been Labor's principal opposition ever since, occasionally with effective results. Shortly before the 1967 war, Begin forced Premier Levi Eshkol to give up his added post of Defense Minister to the more aggressive and knowledgeable Moshe Dayan. In the current crisis, Begin sensed that acceptance of the Rogers plan could lead to new elections; his opposition was designed in part to publicize Gahal's position to prospective voters...
...lady's matter-of-fact self-assessment: "I am a bitch." Many in Israel agree. The late Levi Eshkol called her a shrew. Yitzhak Raphael, a National Religious Party leader, labeled her a liar. She has been threatened with murder and having acid thrown in her eyes. She is sometimes tailed by thugs, and she gets more hate mail than an Arab sympathizer. Says former Education Minister Zalman Aranne: "She leaves scorched people and scorched earth behind...
...salty in person as she is in print, Sylvie was visited by Moshe Dayan last year while she was in a hospital recovering from an ulcer. Dayan told her that he planned to visit the dying Levi Eshkol. Was there anything she wanted him to pass on to the Premier? "Yes," said Sylvie, "tell him to get well so you won't become Premier...