Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Torture Incidents. Israelis nonetheless were quite bitter about the incident; it showed how far from tranquillity the area remains despite Henry Kissinger's cease-fire negotiations. Another indication of ill will was the series of charges and countercharges last week between Israel and Syria concerning the torture of prisoners...
Arab Tilt. Some key offices have gone to dependable veterans: Rabin's old comrade-in-arms Yigal Allon, 55, becomes Foreign Minister as well as continuing as Deputy Premier, while former Transport and Communications Minister Shimon Peres, 51, takes over Defense from Moshe Dayan. But Rabin has appointed others...
Moral Cynicism. But officially, Jerusalem still bristled because the U.S. had assented rather than abstained* on a one-sided United Nations censure of Israel for raiding suspected fedayeen hiding places in Lebanon following the massacre at Qiryat Shemona. Pickets carried signs outside the King David Hotel, where the Secretary of...
In an unpretentious Tel Aviv movie theater last week, Israel's dominant Labor Party gathered to complete a momentous political shift. By a close (298-254) but generally amicable vote, the party's central committee chose Labor Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 52, over Information Minister Shimon Peres, 51, to...
In the maneuvering that preceded the vote, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, the party kingmaker, insisted that he wanted as Premier no ex-general and nobody outside his own Mapai faction of the party. Yet when the vote was taken, Sapir was among Rabin's principal supporters simply because he...