Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shenker interviewed Premier Levi Eshkol, whom he found sitting at his desk with his hand on a small Hebrew Bible. Shenker was particularly struck by his good humor. "How do I manage to keep my temper?" said the Premier in response to a question. "If I were in America, I would have a psychiatrist to explain it. Don't all Americans have psychiatrists?" Shenker also interviewed the new Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, who showed him a treasury of archaeological finds he has unearthed himself. Shenker collects jokes much as Dayan collects ancient pottery, and he obtained at least...
Israel, facing yet another climactic point in her 19-year struggle for survival (see cover), remains the biggest imponderable. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol indicated that he would defer an immediate riposte to Nasser's challenge, saying that he had decided on the "continuation of political activity in the international sphere." But he is under heavy domestic pressure to act, and the point may soon come when he will be forced to choose between political oblivion and a move against the Arabs...
...Jewish people has had to fight unceasingly to keep itself alive," says Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol. "Hopeful ever of redemption, we labored to return to the land of our fathers and to set foundations for the resurgence of an exiled folk. We made our arduous way to the shores of that land. We fought to open its gates to our brethren. We acted from an instinct to save the soul of a people...
Both the land and the soul of Israel are sorely tried. Last week, 19 years after the Diaspora dream of return to Zion became a reality in the first Jewish state in almost 2,000 years, Levi Eshkol and his people found themselves besieged and threatened as few nations have ever been in their history. Tiny, dagger-shaped Israel, whose 2,700,000 people cling to 7,993 sq. mi. on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, faced the implacable hostility and cocked guns of 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. Its borders were ringed with Arab troops...
...each other not only for the sake of world order but for selfish reasons. The Arabs need the help?and the lessons?that Israel is willing to give. The Israelis need peace. "We must try and try and try again to find a modus vivendi with our neighbors," says Levi Eshkol. "A small state has to work hard for friendship." Israel's hardest task is not just to survive the onslaught of Arab enmity, but to convince the Arabs that the Jewish state, here to stay, is worth having as a neighbor...