Word: nehemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Nehemia Argov, 43, was Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's shadow. He was the only military aide the old man ever had-a gentle, universally loved man who himself loved only his chief. Unmarried, he lived only for Ben-Gurion, issued orders in his name that Cabinet officers accepted unquestioningly. "There are only two people who matter in the state-Ben-Gurion and me," he said, not in arrogance, but in devotion so great that it amounted to identification. One day last fortnight, as he drove into Jerusalem, a wasp flew in the window of Argov...
Morning after the funeral, a solemn group filed into the Prime Minister's hospital room. Chief of Staff General Moshe Dayan spoke. "Sir, we have bad news for you. Nehemia is no more. He has shot himself." The old man turned his face to the wall and wept. An hour later he read Argov's letter: "I know what I am going to do will cause you pain, but I cannot do otherwise. It is not the act of a strong man, and you need strong men about...
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