Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the meantime, reports TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, the secret Israeli operation began in May 1976 when three Israeli missile boats sailed from Haifa to Jounieh Bay, near the Christian "capital" north of Beirut. Aboard one boat was Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, and his Defense Minister, Shimon...
Begin has shrewdly presented to Israelis an image of himself as a paternalistic statesman-partly by stopping loose postelection hints about annexing the "liberated" West Bank, which he invariably calls by its biblical name, Samaria and Judea. Says Philip Gillon, columnist for the Jerusalem Post: "Begin's basic views...
The reaction from the Labor Party to Dayan's defection was one of outrage. "This is political prostitution and betrayal," cried Israel Kargman, chairman of the Knesset finance committee. "He has caused us trouble for years," snapped Labor's Jerusalem leader, Uzi Baram. "Let Likud enjoy him now...
Weizman, nephew of the first President of Israel, will probably be named Minister of Defense, succeeding Peres. Begin could decide to keep the Foreign Ministry portfolio himself?although he may offer it to Yadin, to attract support from the D.M.C. Simcha Erlich, 57, leader of the Liberal Party (one of...
At week's end Israeli voters were still recovering from the shock of the election; some were having second thoughts about ousting from power a party that was almost a father image to the country. "I did not want Begin as Premier," said Yehudit Chen, 19, a female soldier. "I...