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...dependent on the U.S. as its major source of economic and military aid, no one would seriously suggest cutting the umbilical cord. "Ideally, of course, we'd like to be free and independent of everybody," shrugs Haim Marantz, 40, a philosophy lecturer at Beersheba's Ben-Gurion University, "but we're not that much worse off than England or Italy in this respect." Part of the reason for the relative ease with which the Israelis accept their dependence on the U.S. is the enduring cultural love affair most Israelis have for everything American. Young sabras still snap...
...descended on Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv laden with luxury goods from the U.S. and West Germany; one El Al jetliner from Western Europe even bumped some passengers to add appliances...
Born in Poland and raised on a kibbutz, he was appointed director general of the Defense Ministry at age 29 by his political mentor, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. For the next 13 years, Peres played a major role in organizing Israel's defense forces, building up its formidable arms and aircraft technology and launching its nuclear research program. Today Israel is generally considered to be a nuclear military power...
During those years, however, Peres also made some powerful enemies, whose vindictive animosity has plagued his political career. His arms-buying forays in Europe often edged into diplomacy, irritating then Foreign Minister Golda Meir. As a Knesset member in 1965, Peres helped to found the Rafi faction of Ben-Gurion loyalists that defected from the Labor Party for three years...
Leader Peres, 57, is a careful pragmatist given to governing through well-wrought political alliances rather than by dint of personality. A protégé of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founder and first Prime Minister, Peres got started in politics as a youth and by 1974 had risen to become Defense Minister. In a recent interview with TIME, Peres outlined his plan to deal with Israel's economic crisis. He said that his first priority would be to slash funds for settlements in the occupied Arab territories. Next he would try to obtain an agreement among...