Word: yadin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International have consistently ignored the Falashas: ironically, so have other Jews, Israel explains away its inactivity because of its bizarre policy of "necessary" silence. In January 1979, the few Falashas living in Israel demonstrated against the secrecy surrounding all discussions of help for Ethiopian Jews. Later that year. Yigael Yadin, then Deputy Prime Minister, announced that secrecy would continue to be necessary to ensure a successful rescue of the Falashas Jewish pressure groups are still given that "rescue" excuse. Yet, only five were rescued between 1978 and 1980. And as of last October, the Jewish Agency--which handles immigration...
...point better than his own career. If his programs changed markedly over the years, he always pursued them with the relentless force of his own personality. Those who met him were usually dazzled by the charm, grace and warmth of his manner. Recalls former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin: "He immediately created a relationship of sincerity, friendship, frankness and warmth, and in this way he was like a member of the family...
...intelligence report that the Iraqis might be able to start manufacturing two or three small nuclear weapons within a year. Despite that, not all of the committee's Cabinet-level members were in favor of a pre-emptive raid. Among those opposed were Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin, Interior Minister Yosef Burg and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt that the attack would damage relations with the U.S. But Begin prevailed with the support of such Israeli hawks as Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In October 1980, the raid plan was given the go-ahead. Thereafter...
...evacuated most of their 150 technicians from El-Tuwaitha, and the Israelis assumed that work on the reactor would be halted indefinitely. But after the war bogged down, the French returned. Another attack date was set for February, but it was canceled after Yadin reiterated his strong objections. A third date, in March, was scrubbed for undisclosed reasons. In May, the ministerial committee authorized Begin to choose his own date for the raid, but strong objections about timing were raised by Opposition Leader Shimon Peres, who had been briefed on the scheme, and the strike was once more postponed...
...every year until the age of 55 (unmarried women serve until 34). The obligation, in a nicely egalitarian way, affects everyone, but it exacts a toll. Shops slow down; restaurants stand half-empty as chefs depart; gaps must be filled on assembly lines. As former Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin once put it, "Every Israeli citizen is on eleven months' leave from the army...