Word: menachem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anticipating that any major news developments in the Middle East would revolve around the leaders of Egypt and Israel, TIME Picture Editor John Durniak last July commissioned Photographer David Hume Kennerly to shoot a portfolio of pictures of both President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin. Durniak's prescience paid off. Our cover story this week on the Egyptian President and his mission to Jerusalem is enhanced by four pages of Kennerly's intimate color photographs of Sadat and his Israeli host...
That was untrue-as Western newsmen who visited the scene quickly discovered. In a highly unusual move, Premier Menachem Begin summoned U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis to his office in Jerusalem to express sympathy for the victims. Said Begin: "If the news reports are correct on civilian casualties, we regret it very deeply, but we do not apologize for the operation itself. If there is quiet on the other side, there will be absolute quiet on our side...
...with little joy, a dash of mordant wit and a surprising lack of panic. It hardly seemed possible, but after nearly 30 years of semisocialism-and all the government controls and subsidies that went with it-the brave new world of laissez-faire capitalism so abruptly introduced by Premier Menachem Begin began exploding before their eyes. The Israeli pound, shorn of its artificially pegged value, quickly plunged 46% against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer goods, no longer kept deliberately cheap by big government subsidies, began climbing in stages that even government economists predict will lead...
What are Shahak's claims that were so important as to merit a full page special? Mistreatment and torture of Arab prisoners is common practice; concentration camps are rampant throughout Israel; Menachem Begin has a "covenant" comparable to that held by the PLO. But if one looks a little further than The Crimson article one finds that Shahak himself admits that he has "no proof of this (torture...
After five months of indecision, the Democratic Movement for Change, Israel's newest and third-largest political bloc (behind Likud and Labor), finally voted last week to join the government. Until now, Premier Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition has had a bare majority-63 seats in the 120-member Knesset; with the addition of D.M.C.'s 15 seats, it will have a far more comfortable 78-seat majority. In return, the D.M.C.'s leader, Yigael Yadin, 60, former general and world-renowned archaeologist, will become Deputy Premier, and his party will get an additional three...