Word: yadin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small (sixmember) opposition Shai Party to dissolve parliament and hold early elections. At the horseshoe-shaped Cabinet table, Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 66, complained to colleagues that he suddenly felt warm. He mopped his brow with a handkerchief and loosened his tie. When Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin asked him if he was all right, Begin weakly replied: "Get a doctor...
After leaving the chamber unobtrusively and locating the Knesset's physician, Yadin returned and led Begin to the Prime Minister's office. At first Begin insisted he wanted to stay and take part in the vote, but colleagues assured him there was no need. As he waited for the ambulance to arrive, Begin joked with friends, but then appeared to be in pain. He told Cabinet Secretary Aryeh Naor, who had been hospitalized with a heart attack only a month earlier: "You just came out. Now I'm going...