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...When the shooting began, we all threw ourselves on the floor," 17-year-old Rafi Saul told Anatolia, Turkey's official news agency...
...arrest, two Israeli diplomats were recalled to Jerusalem: Yosef Yagur, the science attache at the New York consulate, and Ilan Ravid, deputy science attache in the Washington embassy. Simultaneously, the Israeli press reported that the Peres investigation had found that Pollard's secret supervisor was a top intelligence official, Rafi Eitan, who was running his own spying operation in ) Washington unbeknown to his superiors in Jerusalem. A special adviser on counterterrorism to former Prime Ministers, Eitan also held a high-level position in the Liaison Bureau for Scientific Affairs, known by its Hebrew acronym, LAKAM. Established by Peres when...
Then, suddenly, the other two tanks took off at full speed in the original direction. Johnson jumped on the lead tank, grabbed the Israeli commander and yelled at him to stop his tanks. Complying at last, the Israeli, who was subsequently identified only as a Lieut. Colonel "Rafi," told Johnson, "One thing we don't want to do is shoot each other." Replied Johnson: "Yes, but if you keep doing things like this, the likelihood is going to increase...
...West Bank's 80,000 adult workers hold jobs in Israel, almost three times as many as in 1970. In 1980 the West Bank imported $400 million worth of goods, 80% of them from Israel, and had exports of $200 million, half of which went to Israel. Says Rafi Meron, a Bank of Israel specialist in West Bank economic affairs: "No one even dares to think that the West Bankers would want to break off from Israel...
During those years, however, Peres also made some powerful enemies, whose vindictive animosity has plagued his political career. His arms-buying forays in Europe often edged into diplomacy, irritating then Foreign Minister Golda Meir. As a Knesset member in 1965, Peres helped to found the Rafi faction of Ben-Gurion loyalists that defected from the Labor Party for three years...