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When the jury's decision was finally announced, the first person Sharon called in Israel outside his family was his onetime boss, Menachem Begin. The former Prime Minister, who resigned from office in 1983, broke his reclusive silence and said on Israeli radio that the general had won an "absolute moral victory...
After a year of investigation, Tunik blamed the banks for bringing on "a catastrophe for the economy" and faulted the government of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin for doing nothing to prevent the crash. The roots of the trouble go back more than a decade. In the early 1970s Israeli banks started buying and selling their own shares on the Tel Aviv exchange to help regulate the stock prices. In 1979 Israel's inflation passed 100%, and the public bought bank stocks as a hedge against rising consumer prices. The banks encouraged this speculation and helped keep the bank-stock...
...very helpful, election verdict. Lacking a clear winner, the two rival blocs, Likud and Labor, set up an unusual arrangement in which the office of Prime Minister would change after 25 months. Shimon Peres, taking the first turn, adopted a clearly warmer tone than former Prime Minister Menachem Begin had toward...
Richard Duncan, the magazine's chief of correspondents, defended Halevy's reporting. He acknowledged under questioning by Gould that aides to then Prime Minister Menachem Begin had complained about a 1979 TIME story, reported by Halevy, concerning Begin's poor health. When Halevy's confidential sources would not confirm the details of his report, TIME subsequently published a denial from a Begin aide. The magazine noted that it "was apparently misled" about a Begin medical exam and "regrets the error." Duncan stressed that if he had thought Halevy himself had misled TIME, he would have fired...
During a year of shadowy seclusion, his cantankerous volubility has given way to a quiet, mysterious, world-weary amiability. Looking almost spectral in a rumpled suit, Menachem Begin, 71, left Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem after a successful prostate operation. It was the former Prime Minister's first public appearance since he resigned 13 months ago. When he emerged into the hospital's parking lot, leaning on the arm of his daughter Hassia, Begin softly praised his doctors and nurses and said in Hebrew, "Happy New Year to the people of Israel." He then was driven...