Word: sharett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pechersky's alleged crime: passing intelligence information to agents of a foreign embassy during religious services. The embassy was Israel's, and the agent was Diplomat Yaakov Sharett, son of ex-Premier Moshe Sharett, who was expelled by the Russians earlier this year. In part, the imprisonment of the Jewish leaders seemed like retaliation for the sentencing in Israel of several "agents of foreign powers" as spies in recent months. But clearly it was also a renewed attack on "cosmopolitanism." Last week, as word leaked out that three more Jews had been jailed, the Russians seemed embarrassed...
...yield on Bene Israel and find an interpretation of the law that would give the sect first-class citizenship. Members of Bene Israel held a rally at which they threatened to resort to passive resistance and to stop all immigration from India. This possibility led Executive Chairman Moshe Sharett of the Jewish Agency to make a private plea to Nissim to change his ruling, and Premier David Ben-Gurion, who faces general elections in three weeks, told a mass meeting: "The Jews of Bene Israel are Jews like all other Jews, and there is no basis for disqualifying them...
...Sharett thinks it is nonsense to try to analyze the purity of Jews and determine the extent to which they have intermingled with other peoples. "A Jew is first of all someone who is conscious of being a Jew," he says. "Consciousness determines the sociological and political facts of life...
...censorship and intrigue obscuring the Lavon affair, the one clear fact was that Lavon's resignation in February 1955 brought Ben-Gurion back from 15 months' retirement in the Negev to take Lavon's post. Shortly afterward, Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister, replacing Moderate Moshe Sharett, who was more susceptible to the argument that Israel must try to quiet the fears of its Arab neighbors if it is to live in peace with them. Eleven days after Ben-Gurion's return, the Israeli army carried out the massive reprisal raid on Gaza in which Israelis blew...