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...Sunday afternoon Kimche took McFarlane and North to a meeting in a London apartment. The Iranian contact turned out to be not very direct: it was not a government official but Ghorbanifar, the expatriate arms dealer. Yaacov Nimrodi, an Israeli arms merchant, was also present. Kimche had represented Ghorbanifar as being politically astute, but McFarlane found him to be a "man of no integrity" who was obsessed with arms and insensitive to the political concerns of the U.S. McFarlane returned to Washington and gave a pessimistic report to the NSC. Shultz was traveling in Europe but sent advice...
...early 1985 Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk...
...Yaacov Zvieli squints at the cotton fields prospering under the sun and remembers what it was like at the beginning. How, as a skinny youth barely 20, he left his parents in Poland and in 1932 came to what was then called Palestine, carrying the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland. How he and other fervid believers founded the Negba kibbutz in 1939, digging wells and building huts on an arid patch 30 miles south of Tel Aviv. How he and his comrades, armed only with Molotov cocktails and a handful of shells, held off a dozen Egyptian tanks...
...that the young country's existence was constantly threatened. Now, paradoxically, Israel is physically more secure than ever: of its four Arab neighbors, only Syria is a military menace. Yet that has not translated into psychological security. Three dozen years after its birth, Israel faces problems never imagined by Yaacov Zvieli and other founders. "We now disagree among ourselves on everything," says Major General Israel Tal, the father of his country's tank industry. "It is not the environment that has changed or the political realities. It is we who have changed." Says Knesset Speaker Menachem Savidor, a member...
...image of Israeli bankers could be damaged further by a probe launched late last year by the Histadrut, Israel's major labor federation. The organization, which runs Bank Hapoalim, the nation's second largest bank, is investigating rumors about Yaacov Levinson, a prominent Labor Party member and the bank's former managing director. Levinson, according to stories that he angrily denies, shifted bank funds abroad without authorization. Last week the Israeli Attorney General joined the Bank of Israel and a parliamentary committee in looking into the charges. The so-called Levinson Affair has already deepened the loss...