Word: harel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harel's nameless successor at Shin Bet sharply opposed anyone's meddling in security and twice threatened to resign. Forced to choose between the two, Eshkol typically compromised: he kept Harel at a desk but gave him nothing to do. After ten months of inactivity, Harel last month angrily turned in his badge...
...also decided to speak his mind about the boss. In a round of speeches, Harel explained that he was "a worried citizen" concerned about Eshkol's "in decisive leadership." To an audience of students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, he hinted, "Things are really much more serious than I can explain...
...gave away no vital secrets, but in a newspaper interview Harel did reveal that he personally was on the spot in Argentina in 1960 to supervise the snatching of Adolf Eichmann...
...Behind Harel's attacks, Mapai Party spokesmen thought they saw the hand of his old boss, David Ben-Gurion, who last year broke with Eshkol and formed the opposition Rafi Party. Gleeful Rafi men expected to pick up some support from disenchanted Mapai members and hoped eventually to unseat Eshkol. Last week they were spreading rumors that Mapai intended to replace Eshkol with either Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir or former Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
Israel fired off a note to the Security Council, and U.N. observers rushed to the scene. In Tel Aviv, Mapai leaders happily expected that the renewed border violence would divert the heat from Eshkol on the home front, were optimistic that Harel's campaign would finally fizzle. Not so Harel. He was still accepting all speaking engagements that came his way. Said he: "This is not my privilege but my duty...