Word: levies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Psalm Readings. Israel, however, was overnight less preoccupied with external anger than with internal sorrow. Only a few of Premier Levi Eshkol's closest associates knew that he had suffered a heart attack last month and offered to resign. Persuaded to stay on, he relinquished much of his detailed, day-to-day work to Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. On the day before his death, Eshkol seemed unusually ebullient for a convalescent, a fact that troubled Allon, who recalled that his own father had been in especially high spirits just before he died. Eshkol scheduled a ministerial committee meeting...
...Israeli jets pounded guerrilla bases in Syria and Jordan. Fedayeen bombs exploded in Jerusalem and Lydda. Yet the two events that may affect the area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change in government may help close ranks against Israel in the Arab world...
JUST as David Ben-Gurion has been compared to a modern Moses who led his people to the Promised Land, so Levi Eshkol made a credible Joshua as Ben-Gurion's successor in the premiership of Israel. Chosen in 1963 for what many believed to be a transitional tenure, Eshkol presided over the defeat of Israel's enemies and its coming of age as an industrial state. When he died last week at 73, he left behind a government more unified than at any time in Israel's 21-year history, and one that rules over...
...Died. Levi Eshkol, 73, third Premier of Israel (see THE WORLD...