Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet decided for security reasons to bury him instead on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, named for the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who is buried there. For the funeral, reservists were called up and extra police posted in Arab sections of the city. After a service in the Knesset plaza, the procession moved quickly to the graveside, where the coffin was hurriedly lowered into a stone-lined grave. Acting Premier Allon stood beside Eshkol's widow, Miriam, while Dayan stood at the edge of the crowd and Mrs. Meir, teary-eyed and pale, was lost amid the throng...
...Israelis found De Gaulle's maneuvers too much to bear. Students staged mass demonstrations before the French embassy in Tel Aviv. One poster showed a De Gaulle-nosed poodle sniffing a mongrel sporting an Arab headdress. The caption: HE SMELLS OIL. In the Knesset, Premier Levi Eshkol condemned France's expressed reasons for the embargo (Israeli "aggression") as a "mendacious libel...
...Premier Levi Eshkol, who called a Cabinet meeting for this week to consider an appropriate response. Still, some Israelis found a silver lining. The embargo makes more palatable to voters the $2.3 billion "war budget to prevent war" that Finance Minister Zeev Sha-ref presented to the Knesset last week. And it will likely produce millions of dollars in new funds from Jews around the world...
...court proposed a compromise that would leave no one a winner. The judges suggested that the Attorney General simply ask the government to abolish nationality as a category of birth registration. Although this would appear to be a simple and logical solution, few Israeli political observers expect that the Knesset will agree to drop the disputed requirement. If it does not, the riddle will once again return to the Supreme Court for a final decision...
...more Arabs who inhabit conquered territories that are together three times the size of Israel itself. The burden of the occupation has compounded older problems. Many younger politicians are losing patience with the pioneer generation of leaders typified by Eshkol. Men like Dayan's aide, Knesset Member Simon Peres, describe them as "a self-perpetuating oligarchy with a powerful sense of self-pity." Despite its recovery, the economy has serious weaknesses, among them its dependence upon the generosity of Jews abroad and its large trade deficit. Defense expenditures have risen from $10 million in 1950 to $750 million this...