Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli authorities have detained as many as 20 Palestinians in connection with the shooting, but have apparently made little progress in solving the murder. Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee that the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or the notorious Abu Nidal group was "probably" responsible for the killing. Both Syrian-backed, anti-Arafat groups accused al Masri of being an Israeli collaborator, and Abu Nidal also called the assassination "a warning" to Arafat and Hussein. Some Israeli sources, however, did not rule out Arafat's own Fatah organization...
...week's fighting was something of a setback for Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who counts last year's withdrawal from Lebanon as one of his proudest achievements. Since a total of 656 Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon between the invasion in June 1982 and the pullout in June 1985, Peres has often said that the withdrawal was saving 20 Israeli lives a week...
...Words are too poor to express this moment," the Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, declared the next night as Shcharansky arrived in Tel Aviv from Frankfurt aboard an Israeli executive jet. "Welcome, and may you be happy among us." Standing beside his darkly beautiful wife, with whom he had been reunited only a few hours earlier after an absence of twelve years, Shcharansky, 38, told the crowd of well-wishers in halting Hebrew, "There are moments in our life that are difficult to describe. This is the happiest day in our lives." His eyes glistening in the glare...
...least after the Soviet Communist Party Congress in late February. The plan is to move the Soviet Jews first to Poland and then airlift them to Israel. In this way they would be prevented from attempting to emigrate directly to the U.S. or other Western countries. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told TIME during a visit to Geneva last week that "the Soviets have always complained that those allowed to emigrate go to the U.S. instead of Israel. Well, I agree that it is in the interest of the Soviet Union as well as my own country that they...
...case of Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. Navy counterintelligence analyst accused of spying for Israel, continued to unfold last week, as an eight-member U.S. Government team arrived in Tel Aviv to question Israeli officials suspected of involvement in the affair. At the same time, the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres wrestled with another problem: a rise in tension between Israel and Syria over the Israeli downing of two Syrian MiG fighter planes a month ago. Though some Israeli officials described the matter as a "crisis," to the U.S. Government the danger appeared to have subsided by the time...