Word: ezer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...howls of alarm that the country could be heading toward uncontrollable triple-digit inflation. Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich proposed a stringent plan to reduce inflation by 1981 to 40%, at best, by slashing $1.5 billion in government spending, including $650 million from the defense budget. At that, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who has been seeking a 40% increase to defend the narrower peacetime borders, angrily bolted from the Cabinet meeting. Opposition leaders demanded that Ehrlich resign, and Begin was forced to postpone the ministerial vote on the plan. Nor was that all. At week's end the mercurial Weizman...
...another part of the tent, Mrs. Ezer Weizman, wife of the Israeli Minister of Defense, turned to Kissinger with tears in her eyes. "I never thought that I would live to see it," she said. Then she looked over to where her husband was introducing her son, severely wounded in the 1973 war, to the son of Anwar Sadat...
Fully aware of this growing enmity, the Carter Administration was busy giving last-minute assurances of support to the Israelis and the Egyptians. Both Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Egyptian Defense Minister Kamel Hassan Ali arrived in Washington with impressive shopping lists. As a reward for signing the treaty, Israel is to receive $3 billion in new aid, including $2.2 billion in credits over three years and $800 million in grants to finance the removal of Israeli airfields in the Sinai desert. All this is in addition to the $1.8 billion in annual military and economic aid that Israel...
...Israel there were some upbeat signs. As Dayan prepared to set off for the Camp David talks, Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer that he thought the Camp David negotiations would reach "a positive conclusion." Weizman added simply: "I believe that our future and Egypt's future lie together." He did not, however, discuss the vexing problem of "linkage"−Egypt's insistence that a bilateral peace agreement with Israel must be tied in some way to a plan for giving autonomy to the West Bank and Gaza...
...Cairo talks for a flight to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir. Sensitive to the impropriety of conducting diplomacy at such a moment, Vance huddled only briefly over coffee in a private room at the airport with Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...