Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respected military expert, Basil Henry Liddell (The Defense of the West) Hart, who visited him in Tel Aviv. Baer toured NATO instalations in Europe three years ago, lectured in West Germany, and last year paid a visit to Moscow. Another close friend: Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres, one of the favorites eventually to succeed Ben-Gurion. There had been questions before about Baer's loyalty, but Ben-Gurion stood by his friend, ignored the rumors...
...Defense Minister until 1955, when he was forced from office for what has been mysteriously described as a "disastrous affair'' in the previous year.- Lavon loudly denied responsibility, insisted he had been framed by two of Ben-Gurion's proteges: Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, Director General of the Defense Ministry...
...storm that followed, a special judicial commission delivered a secret report that is said to clear Lavon. Newspapers have managed to hint that Lavon's relations with young Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, the whip-smart young director-general of the Defense Ministry, were terrible at the time. But Peres. 37, now B-G's Deputy Defense Minister, denies that he had any part in framing Lavon, and Dayan, 45, now Agriculture Minister and B-G's present favorite for the succession, has said nothing...
...event which convinced him that only if he sought arms, and quickly, could he save Egypt. Failing to get them in the West, Nasser turned to make the cotton-for-guns deal with the Russians that brought Communist influence into the Middle East. As more Israeli raids followed, young Shimon Peres flew to Paris to negotiate the alliance that armed Israel with French jets and tanks and paved the way for the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in the fall...