Word: shafrir
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...from doing business. One case was the purchase by Honduras last year of eight French-built Mystère fighters, which the Israelis had equipped with U.S. jet engines. A more serious complaint comes from Raytheon Co., which accuses the Israelis of scavenging an air-to-air missile called Shafrir out of Raytheon's Sidewinder-specifically, by stealing Sidewinder's infra-red guidance system -and then selling it to Chile...
...Minister Shimon Peres insisted that Israel's arms practices were entirely proper. The Mystère sale to Honduras was an honest mistake, he claimed. Israel had paid cash for the engines, the planes were obsolete, and no one expected the U.S. to protest such a sale. The Shafrir, he explained, was developed and used in combat three years before Israel saw its first Sidewinder. "The only American piece of equipment in the Shafrir is a small battery that you can buy on the open market. Had we known it would cause problems, we would have used...
...Avishai Shafrir, founding member of Kibbutz Adamit...
...even in the middle of his resignation speech to correct a misspelling in his notes, has occupied himself with tempering Ben-Gurion's most headstrong policies. It was Sharett who successfully fought "B.-G.'s" plan to attack Gaza after the Arab murder of praying schoolchildren in Shafrir (TiME, April...
...just after dusk, and 46 skull-capped youngsters stood at their evening prayers in the synagogue of the Shafrir village farm school just outside Tel Aviv. They prayed: "If any design evil against me, speedily make their counsel of no effect and frustrate their designs. Do it for the sake...
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