Word: shahar
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...tough immediate measures to bring it down. Says Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin's chief rival in the upcoming elections: "Vision is worth more than economic study, and the dreamer gets better results than the best professor of economics." One such economist, Tel Aviv University President Haim Ben-Shahar, feels that only a decisive leadership, the kind that would be brave enough to stand up to political pressure groups and cut defense spending, can assure the growth that Israel needs desperately. And when might economic redemption arrive? Israelis like to invoke a rabbinic adage popular since the second century...