Word: ezer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's leaders, men like Begin, President Yitzhak Navon, former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who knew Sadat and worked with him, were genuinely moved and saddened. Right-wing extremists were overjoyed, anticipating that Sadat's death might mean Israel would retain its hold on part of the Sinai...
Among them: Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Ashraf Ghorbal, former Presidents Ford and Carter, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance, and former Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...
...Begin's most important appointment was his selection of General Ariel Sharon as his new Defense Minister. Sharon, who served as Agriculture Minister in the last government and was a zealous builder of new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, has wanted the defense post ever since Ezer Weizman resigned last year. Instead, Begin kept the portfolio himself, quipping that if the aggressive Sharon were to become Defense Minister, he might "surround the Prime Minister's office with tanks." This time Begin relented...
After so many false starts, the cloak of secrecy sheltering the operation was beginning to fray. On May 22, word of the raid was leaked to Moshe Shahal, a Knesset opposition party leader. His source: former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who viewed the proposed strike as "adventurist." At roughly the same time, Begin's office received two additional intelligence reports that the Iraqis were prepared to activate the reactor (make it "hot" in technical jargon) as early as the first week in July. On June 5, Begin gave orders to launch the attack two days later. His day of decision...
...directly in the conflict unless Syria used air power against the Christians. The revelations caused an outcry by the opposition, which charged that the agreement constituted a de facto peace treaty that circumvented requisite Knesset approval. TIME also learned last week that Begin, Moshe Dayan, then Foreign Minister, and Ezer Weizman, then Defense Minister, had met in Israel with Phalangist leaders as early...