Word: shamir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting Egyptians in '48 and how it is now fighting the economy; Author Amos Oz, who interrupted work on his new novel to explain how deeply Israelis care about what other people think of them; and Opposition Leader Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who took time from their election campaign for private interviews with TIME." Kelly was accompanied on his rounds by TIME Photographer David Rubinger, 60, who immigrated to Israel from Vienna before World War II. Reporter Robert Slater, 40, whose interviews ranged from Israel's Finance Minister to Jerusalem housewives, arrived in Israel from...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 68, who came to his position after Menachem Begin abruptly resigned ten months ago, found his fragile Likud coalition crumbling in March, forcing the Knesset to call the July 23 elections. Shamir faces Shimon Peres, 60, the Labor Party leader who lost twice to Begin (in 1977 and 1981). The two men share a quiet, unruffled style, but their views diverge sharply (see interviews). Neither candidate leaves any doubt as to what is at stake. "It is not that the ship of Israel fell apart, but that it is sailing in the wrong direction," says Peres...
...importance, the campaign has been strangely tame so far, with both men drawing sparse crowds and tepid applause. When Shamir arrived at a Tel Aviv suburb for a rally, he discovered that local party officials had failed to spread the word. The Prime Minister kept a fixed smile, but later he snapped at the organizers, "You should have told me!" Shamir had better luck at a branch of Bank Leumi in Givatayim, where several dozen customers clustered around him. "Tell your clientele," he said to the bank's manager, "that they should not worry about their savings. We will secure...
...besieged gulf, the Iraqis are desperate to find an alternative route that will allow them to replenish their war-drained treasury. It was learned last week that a suggestion had come from an unexpected source: the Israelis. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, Prime Yitzhak Shamir revealed that offered to let Iraq pump its oil through long-unused pipeline, built in the 1930s, stretches from Baghdad to the Israeli port of Haifa. Iraq, which does not recognize Israel, rejected the invitation...
...Shamir won, as expected, and thus became the Likud's candidate for Prime Minister in the July 23 elections. But the big surprise was that Sharon got 42% of the delegates' votes to Shamir's 56%. Most political observers had expected Sharon to win a mere 10% to 15%. It was a remarkable comeback for a man who was forced to resign as Defense Minister last year after the government-appointed Kahan commission concluded that he had made "a grave mistake when he ignored the danger of acts of revenge and bloodshed" by Lebanese Phalangists against Arab...