Word: ezer
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Assisting Aikman was TIME'S Robert Slater, who interviewed former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Slater found that the fortunes of Israeli leaders are as unpredictable as the country. Says he: "Israeli politics is like the proverbial seesaw: it goes up one month and descends the next." Correspondent Marlin Levin, who has covered Israel off and on since 1948, spoke with a cross section of citizens - from mothers to officeworkers to university professors - to assess the national mood. "When I first came here as a correspondent for the United Press, life went on under...
...startling recovery of Begin and his Likud coalition was due in part to Labor's overconfidence and failure to mount an aggressive early offensive. The departure from Begin's Cabinet of such prickly individualists as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz helped to give the coalition the illusion of unity, even if some critics saw it more properly as a vacuum. Newly appointed Finance Minister Yoram Aridor had added an undeniably popular move by reducing excise taxes and import duties on luxury items like color television sets and autos. The "Aridor...
...majority in the 120-seat Knesset, they now show Labor with only 45 seats, Begin's Likud with 33 and various splinter groups with 42. The new polls undoubtedly give Begin more confidence as he faces such unexpected bombshells as the tart revelations of his onetime Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman. Excerpts from a Weizman memoir, read avidly in Israel last week, are sharply critical of Begin and his leadership following the Camp David accords (see following story...
...figures in Menachem Begin's Likud coalition have been as colorful as Ezer Weizman, 56, a onetime British Royal Air Force pilot who served for three years as Begin 's Defense Minister. He noisily resigned last May in a dispute over defense spending and the future of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Last week Israeli readers pored over selected controversial passages from Weizman's soon-to-be-published book, The Battle for Peace, a salty, 395-page memoir of the period straddling the 1978 Camp David accords. Excerpts...
...almost sacrosanct. Thus when Hurvitz tried to cut military spending by 10% to $2 billion for 1981, he provoked anguished howls not only from the defense community but also from Prime Minister Begin, who has uneasily held a second portfolio as acting Defense Minister ever since the resignation of Ezer Weizman last May. One result of Hurvitz's stand: Begin's Cabinet so far has been unable formally to vote on the entire 1981 budget at all. If it had acceded to Hurvitz, it would have angered the right and caused genuine security anxieties in the population...