Word: leah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provision of the Likud economic plan might have changed the results of the election that brought Begin to power: the legalization of foreign bank accounts for Israeli citizens. The most prominent violators of the old law banning such accounts were former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his wife Leah. They admitted keeping $20,000 in Washington, D.C., banks, thus causing Rabin's resignation and contributing to the Likud victory...
...their part, the teachers criticize the students for skipping class, for disruptive behavior in the halls and for general apathy. They complain that their charges cannot read and write adequately. "They are so poor in basic communication," laments English Department Head Leah Caliri...
Meanwhile, Rabin last week was characteristically uncertain about his future plans. Rather than seek a trial that might demean the office of Premier, he readily paid a token $ 1,600 fine for having been the co-signer of his wife's illicit bank account. His wife Leah, however, was formally indicted; if found guilty, she could be fined up to $63,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Although he quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound...
Like most other Israelis, Peres first learned about Premier Yitzhak Rabin's resignation when he watched the Premier's television speech on April 7. The previous night Yitzhak and Leah Rabin had been dinner guests of Peres and his wife Sonia, who, of course, knew about the resignation rumors. Rabin looked a little tense, a little sad, but gave no indication that he planned to step down...
...game's end to take to the air waves and declare another stunning upset-his own. Rabin announced to the country that he would not lead his ruling Labor Party in the May 17 elections -and that he wanted to resign immediately. His reason: he and his wife Leah had held two U.S. bank accounts in violation of Israeli law, and their value was far higher than the couple had earlier admitted...