Word: menachem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington had been fully aware of Sadat's dismay at the outcome of the Foreign Ministers' meeting at Leeds Castle last month. Matters worsened when Premier Menachem Begin rejected Sadat's discreet suggestion that Israel might return Saint Catherine's Monastery and El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, to Egypt as a token of good will. Begin seized on the proposal, which Sadat had never intended to be publicized, as an opportunity for public defiance. "Nobody can get anything for nothing," said Begin. Sadat, embarrassed, accused Begin of deliberately sabotaging the peace talks...
...shall not give even a single grain of the sands of the Sinai as a gift." ?Israeli Premier Menachem Begin...
...company, which gets 3% to 4% of its $400 million operating budget from the government, has asked for an additional $15 million subsidy. But Prime Minister Menachem Begin, committed to freer enterprise, so far has been no more forthcoming with El Al than he has been with Anwar Sadat. Says Gad Yaacobi, chairman of the Knesset Economic Committee: "The government will be very reluctant to give El Al this subsidy until it proves it will make every effort to become more efficient...
...Menachem Begin's finest hour. During a rowdy session of the Knesset that was televised nationally last week, Israel's Premier lost his temper in a debate with Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres about Peres' talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Vienna, came close to weeping, and tore up pieces of paper. At a closed session of Labor delegates, even former Premier Golda Meir wondered aloud whether Begin had lost his senses. Meanwhile, a new "denial unit" in Begin's office, created to offset critical press stories about him, was working full time to explain...
...Knesset broke into an uproar. Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, a member of the Labor Party, asked: "What is that? A peace poster?" (The reference was to an earlier incident in which Defense Minister Weizman had ripped down a poster outside Begin's office.) Called out Meir Peil, head of the left-wing Shelli Party: "A Premier on the rostrum ripping up papers?" Begin answered with sarcasm: "Did I wake you up, Knesset Member Peil? Shalom alechem...