Word: weizman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat Knesset, they now show Labor with only 45 seats, Begin's Likud with 33 and various splinter groups with 42. The new polls undoubtedly give Begin more confidence as he faces such unexpected bombshells as the tart revelations of his onetime Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman. Excerpts from a Weizman memoir, read avidly in Israel last week, are sharply critical of Begin and his leadership following the Camp David accords (see following story...
...painstaking drip irrigation. Collective farmers like those of Moshav Sadot are demanding at least half of the estimated $2.2 billion-or 13% of the 1981 national budget-that Israel has set aside as compensation for the Sinai settlers. But even that will not console all of them. Says Ella Weizman, 31, who sits tensely with her husband Vito in the comfortable living room of their farm home: "We came to nothing, and we made something out of it. You can't pay for the soul and the dreams we put into this place...
Over the past 3½ years, the Begin government had survived seemingly more daunting challenges, including the resignations of its two most prominent personalities, Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister in 1979 and Ezer Weizman as Defense Minister last spring. When Begin last November survived by a mere three votes a no-confidence motion in the Knesset on his handling of the economy, it was an indication to many that time was running...
...sacrosanct. Thus when Hurvitz tried to cut military spending by 10% to $2 billion for 1981, he provoked anguished howls not only from the defense community but also from Prime Minister Begin, who has uneasily held a second portfolio as acting Defense Minister ever since the resignation of Ezer Weizman last May. One result of Hurvitz's stand: Begin's Cabinet so far has been unable formally to vote on the entire 1981 budget at all. If it had acceded to Hurvitz, it would have angered the right and caused genuine security anxieties in the population...
Dwight Eisenhower passed on his dogeared copies to Secret Service men; former Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman is an avid fan; so is Ronald Reagan's campaign press secretary, Lyn Nofziger. Tom Landry packs a volume with his Dallas Cowboys playbook for road trips; Country Star Willie Nelson has a coveted signed edition. Straight through the heartland of America, truck drivers pass up the centerfold magazines at diesel stops to buy a copy of his latest paperback; thousands of folks from Santa Fe, N. Mex., to Savannah, Ga., line up for his autograph on his frequent tours...