Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel's slow recovery from the war and its eroding image abroad have caused some Israelis to question his leadership. If Rabin's fragile coalition majority in the Knesset were to collapse, there are several men who are not only willing but eager to succeed him. One potential...
Although Rabin is leader of the dominant Labor Party as well as Premier, he has consistently ignored party apparatchiks and rarely sat in on their caucuses. The party is now so deeply in debt-an estimated $4 million-that its headquarters in Tel Aviv has trouble paying its telephone bills...
Bombing Villages. Another trouble spot is the Lebanese-Israeli border. Palestinian guerrillas have frequently crossed it to attack Israel, while Israeli forces have retaliated by bombing, shelling and raiding Lebanese villages that they claim have provided the Palestinians with shelter. In the past year, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have...
First there was the War of Independence, then the Sinai war, the Six-Day War, the war of attrition, the Yom Kippur War-and now the water war. Last week, when Soviet minesweepers intruded into Israel's waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them...
A plain-spoken former grease monkey and TWA flight engineer from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's...