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...informed of the final plan until just hours before it was carried out. The Cabinet had approved preparations for the mission shortly after the Prime Ministers' Club had decided on the plan. At the time, the only reservations were sounded by Peres and Minister Without Portfolio Ezer Weizmann, who voiced strong objections. Now, with al-Wazir's assassination only hours away, eight Cabinet members again endorsed the plan and the same two holdouts renewed their objections. Last week, as doubts continued about the wisdom of the operation, Peres maintained a discreet silence, but Weizmann spoke out against the attack...
Secondary changes in the new government also give it a slightly more hawkish tilt. The hard-line Moshe Arens took over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...
...Western intellectual values. The book is also in the best tradition of readable historical narrative. O'Brien recounts the varieties of 19th century anti- Semitism in Europe and Russia. He follows the emergence of leaders like Theodor Herzl ("I shall be the Parnell of the Jews") and Chaim Weizmann, who successfully lobbied Britain to pass the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to help establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The document was an important seal of approval for Zionism, although His Majesty's government had ulterior motives. Among them was the need to get American Jews behind full U.S. involvement...
...branch of mathematics known as complexity theory. Shamir was at M.I.T. in the late '70s as an associate professor of mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T...
...some bold theorists are using QCD in an ambitious attempt to succeed by other means where Einstein failed. That could eventually mean a union of all four of nature's basic forces -gravitation, electromagnetism and the nuclear strong and weak forces. Predicted Israeli Theorist Haim Harari of the Weizmann Institute of Science: "Five years from now when we look back, we will all agree that the gluon was discovered in the summer...