Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Must the leader of a beleaguered nation insist on all the pomp and perquisites of office? Or can she act like a Jewish grandmother, preparing gefilte fish, eating with her chauffeur and maid, baking a cake for a Foreign Ministry party? (See THE WORLD, "Israel's New Premier...
...admiration for the Senator had turned to vitriolic hate. "If he were in front of me," Sirhan declared last week, relating the incident to the jury, "so help me God, he would have died right then and there!" The reason: Sirhan discovered that Kennedy had been friendly to Israel since that nation was founded...
Golda Shelanu, or "our Golda," as she is called, has seemed like a permanent institution of the Israel Labor Party and Israeli life for 40 years. Granite-willed, forceful and disconcertingly direct, she is more respected than popular, and as uncompromising in public policy as she is in private principle. While it is a byword in government offices that "no one ever crosses Golda," no one who knows her is surprised at her egalitarian insistence, in the privacy of her home, of having her maid and chauffeur share her table, kibbutz-style. An opposition gibe that "all government decisions...
According to a cruel gibe at the time, Eshkol became Premier "to prove that Israel could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
Died. Levi Eshkol, 73, third Premier of Israel (see THE WORLD...