Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Rabin last week was characteristically uncertain about his future plans. Rather than seek a trial that might demean the office of Premier, he readily paid a token $ 1,600 fine for having been the co-signer of his wife's illicit bank account. His wife Leah, however, was...
He should have been baggy-eyed and rumpled at the end of the most hectic week of his life. But Shimon Peres, as usual, was relaxed and well-groomed as he sipped Turkish coffee in his Defense Ministry office while discussing Israel's latest political crisis with TIME Jerusalem...
Like most other Israelis, Peres first learned about Premier Yitzhak Rabin's resignation when he watched the Premier's television speech on April 7. The previous night Yitzhak and Leah Rabin had been dinner guests of Peres and his wife Sonia, who, of course, knew about the resignation...
After Rabin's speech, Peres moved decisively to nail down the Labor Party nomination for Premier that he had twice lost by narrow margins. "I knew I had the support of the party," said Peres, but he had to prove as much to Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, 58. That...
Peres also spent hours haggling with Labor Party factions intent upon placing their candidates high up in the "safe" seats in the parliamentary election. (In Israel, party representation in the Knesset is determined by the percentage of the total vote that each party receives; the higher on the list a...