Word: shamir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama of a very different kind that was unfolding at the exhibition grounds convention center in Tel Aviv. There, at a meeting of the central committee of the Herut Party, the main group within the ruling Likud bloc, former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was challenging Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for the party leadership...
...inquisitions were broadcast on WBZ-TV. "The intent was not to humiliate," insisted News Director Stan Hopkins, but the effect was precisely that. Hartley and Democratic Congressman Edward Markey could not identify the Prime Minister of Israel (Yitzhak Shamir). Markey came close: he guessed Moshe Arens, who is the Defense Minister. Bartley alone failed to get the name of Syria's President (Hafez Assad). Republican Elliot Richardson, a former Secretary of Defense, estimated the military's share of the budget (28%) at just 7.5%. All seven Democrats were stumped by the toughest questions they were asked: the amount...
Such external threats merely compounded the internal traumas confronted by the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Only last month the opposition Labor Party forced Shamir to schedule early elections for July 23. Soon afterward, it became apparent that Deputy Prime Minister David Levy, a popular Sephardi who was defeated by Shamir for the leadership of their Herut Party last September, still harbored designs on that position. Shamir was, in a sense, saved only by the bell: just three hours before Levy was widely expected to make formal his challenge on national TV, he received a pointed phone call...
...Shamir can, however, still expect a leadership challenge from former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. And even as his Herut Party was squabbling, the opposition Labor Party showed unity as it rallied behind Leader Shimon Peres. Before 1,000 party delegates, Peres' archrival Yitzhak Rabin declared, "The fifth President of the state of Israel and the fifth Prime Minister-if you've forgotten, that's me-recommends electing the fifth Defense Minister Shimon Peres as the eighth Prime Minister of the state of Israel." Although all those numbers may have sent heads reeling, other figures were sure...
Since he became Prime Minister of Israel five months ago, Yitzhak Shamir has struggled with the problems left behind by his predecessor, Menachem Begin. In the process, his confidence has grown and he has proved to be a smooth, pragmatic leader. Shamir has cut government spending to try to cool off Israel's dangerously fevered economy. He has withdrawn Israel's occupation force in western Lebanon to the Awali River. Most important, he has mended his country's severely strained ties with the U.S. Now Shamir faces another test: early elections and a campaign that will undoubtedly...