Word: gazit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gazit's credentials as practitioner are many. In the past ten years, he has handled a series of important diplomatic assignments, including heading the Israeli delegation at the 1975 Geneva peace talks with Egypt, serving as ambassador to France, and acting as director general of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office...
Recalling the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, Gazit says he felt frustration when Egypt's President Anwar Sadat refused to let negotiations run over schedule into 1976 because he feared that the American presidential elections would adversely affect the Egyptian position...
...found out we were dealing with a very serious government, bent on a settlement," Gazit says. But he is quick to point out the lighter side of the difficulties. "The negotiations were in September and between the Moslem Sabbath on Fridays, and Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur falling on Sundays and Mondays that year, it made for amusing negotiations and necessitated and two consecutive 24-hour sessions," he says...
...Gazit began his career far from the negotiation table. At the age of 14, he joined the Jewish underground army, the Haganah, and attended its officer-training school...
...Israeli War of Independence, Gazit served as chief intelligence officer for a brigade and then commanded his own company. But a serious gunshot wound he received while fighting in Jerusalem ended his military career and resulted in the loss of a lung. The injury, he says, "gave me further impetus to go on in government...