Word: somno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just why he has chosen to make the effort is a subject of some controversy in Israel. In 1963 he "retired" to Sde Boker and handed the Premiership and leadership in the dominant Mapai party over to Finance Minister Eshkol. Then, last year he demanded that Eshkol reopen the somno lent "Lavon Affair," which had begun in 1955, when Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon was fired for his supposed responsibility in an abortive anti-Egyptian sabotage plot-and ended, as far as Eshkol was concerned, when an official inquiry in 1961 cleared Lavon...
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