Word: rabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan was one. So were his Cabinet colleagues, Ezer Weizman and Ariel Sharon. So were former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his Foreign Minister Yigal Allon. D.M.C. Leader Yigael Yadin held the rank, as did United Nations Ambassador Chaim Herzog, Tel Aviv Mayor Shlomo Lahat and Israel's Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren...
...meetings with Middle East leaders, Carter got on famously with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Syria's President Hafez Assad and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd -but not at all well with Israel's then Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. Then the President alarmed Jews when he called for a homeland for Palestinians, suggested that Israel withdraw from almost all of the territory it had seized in the 1967 Six-Day War, and asked for reparations for displaced Arabs-a demand that even Arab leaders have not made...
...Israel's three religious parties (16 seats in the new Knesset) and of retired general Ariel Sharon, an ally of Begin whose group won two seats in parliament. Begin asked for Labor's help in forming a unity government, but a disappointed Shimon Peres, who replaced former Premier Yitzhak Rabin in mid-campaign (TIME, April 18), said no. "The platform of the Likud does not permit the necessary opening for negotiations," said Peres. "The | Likud offers no alternative for peace...
...where he has been a caustic gadfly to several Labor governments. He can be a fierce debater: when Ben-Gurion's government supported German war reparations for Jewish property, Begin's rhetoric grew so rabid that he was suspended from the Knesset for three months. In 1974, after Yitzhak Rabin became Premier, Begin remarked, "We haven't seen a dovecot like Rabin's Cabinet since Noah's ark. I consider it a national duty to bring this government down...
Hussein I, LL.D., King of Jordan. We salute you for your inspired vision of peace and justice in the Middle East. Yitzhak Rabin, LL.D., former Prime Minister of Israel. You have worked hard, in full dedication to the founding dream of your country...