Word: haim
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Many Peres supporters had hoped that a sign of new strength might emerge from the appointment of Labor shadow cabinet members last week. But it was not to be. Peres picked a Labor stalwart like Haim Bar-Lev as shadow Defense Minister, but his choice as shadow Finance Minister was mild-mannered Haim Ben-Shahar, president of Tel Aviv University. Ben-Shahar is a respected economist but is considered no match for Aridor in the political arena...
Indeed the mudslinging may have already begun. Labor Secretary-General Haim Bar-Lev was the subject of a barrage of bizarre rumors telephoned into Israel's daily newspapers by anonymous callers. They said that he had been arrested by Israeli security forces on suspicion of spying for the Soviet Union. Bar-Lev scornfully denied the rumors and came close to openly accusing the Likud of starting them. "Half of the opposition people have already been labeled [by Likud] as traitors," scoffed Bar-Lev. "The Likud people are fighting for their political lives...
...negotiations. One inducement to Egyptian patience is the prospect that elections next year in Israel may bring in a new and more flexible government headed by the Labor Party. Earlier this month, Israeli Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban and former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev visited Cairo to take part in a symposium on the Palestinian problem sponsored by the Egyptian magazine October. Sadat took the opportunity to meet with the Israelis and discuss their mutual concerns...
...would be most directly threatened, insist that Iraq could accumulate enough expertise and enriched uranium to make several nuclear weapons by the mid-1980s. Jerusalem has mounted a campaign to alert Western Europe and the U.S. to what it considers a mortal danger. Israel's Transportation Minister Haim Landau went so far as to accuse France of pursuing policies "similar to those of the Vichy regime" during World War II. Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zippori warned that if diplomatic efforts failed to halt the nuclear program, Israel would consider "alternative steps," presumably meaning a pre-emptive military strike...
...Begin's Cabinet approved the construction of Jewish settlements in major Arab urban centers such as Hebron. For more than a year, squatters from Qiryat Arba have illegally occupied the former Hadassah clinic in Hebron, where the attack took place. Israel's former Army Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, who is now secretary-general of the opposition Labor Party, argued in the Knesset last week that the Hebron attack would never have occurred if Begin's government had removed the Hadassah-clinic squatters as he had promised. Former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, in a television interview...