Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riot-torn Palestine with a reluctant non-Zionist husband, Morris Myerson, spent two years on a kibbutz and four in grinding poverty in Jerusalem. He returned to the U.S., later went back to Tel Aviv, where he was employed as a bookkeeper, and died in 1951. She remained in Israel with a daughter Sara, who now lives on a kibbutz in the Negev, and a son Menachem, a cellist who studied with Pablo Casals and is now teaching music in New Haven, Conn...
...Israel's first woman Premier, Mrs. Meir will, if past performance is a guide, be more decisive than her predecessor and no less unyielding on Israel's twin demands of a negotiated peace settlement with the Arabs and permanent annexation of parts of the territories occupied in the 1967 war. "I oppose anyone who speaks of morality on the territories issues," she has declared. "It is the essence of morality to ensure the survival of the Jewish people in the Jewish state...
...week, in the first interview she has granted since Eshkol's death, Mrs. Meir added: "As long as the Arabs won't sit down with us, that means they don't accept our existence. Nasser must conclude that peace is not something he can give to Israel as a luxury or fulfillment of its need, but as something at least as necessary for his people as for the Israelis. It's not a present for him to give to us. It's something that his children, the children in the Nile valley, need as much...
...dimension of terror from the inside added sharply to the burdens of Premier-designate Golda Meir, who, as expected, was voted in by the Israel Labor Party to succeed the late Premier Levi Eshkol last week. Only a day after the vote, trouble flared along the Suez Canal. Hours after Israeli jets shot down an Egyptian MIG-21 over the Sinai, artillery opened up along the 60-mile canal front. For the second time since the Six-Day war, Israeli guns set fire to Egypt's main oil refineries at Suez. The Israelis lost one soldier killed...
Substantial Progress. Israel has still not responded to the attack on an El Al airliner in Zurich last month. After the widespread condemnation that followed Israel's strike at Beirut airport last December, the government felt it necessary to measure its response with care, at a time when the new U.S. Administration of Richard Nixon is formulating its policy on the Middle East. At his press conference last week, the President reported "substantial progress" in conversations on the Middle East with France's De Gaulle, and "encouraging" talks with the Russians. Both favor an imposed settlement-a proposition...