Word: naftali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though partially state-controlled, ZIM is run with the profit-consciousness of a private enterprise by its general manager, Naftali Wydra, a lawyer who fled Berlin in the '30s, managed to get to Palestine, and helped the Zionists set up kibbutzim right under British noses. On its 1963 revenues of $67 million, the line earned a modest $1,000,000. In directing a worldwide enterprise that employs 3,800 Israelis, Wydra, who has headed ZIM since its founding, faces some unique problems. Because ZIM cannot use the Arab-owned Suez Canal, it must divide its fleet between Israel...