Word: yigal
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Siege of Jerusalem. During Israel's war of independence, he was a deputy commander of the Palmach under Yigal Allon (now Israel's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister). Some of Rabin's exploits-including his command of the brigade that lifted the 1948 siege of Jerusalem, and countless raids that he led to liberate detainees who had immigrated illegally-were later attributed by Author Leon Uris to the fictional heroes of his novel Exodus...
...earlier this year to work out an Arab-Israeli ceasefire, the Secretary of State has switched the procedure. Since July he has been standing still in Washington while a procession of Middle Eastern diplomats shuttles in to see him. So far, the roster has included Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, Prime Minister Zaid Rifai of Jordan, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt, Jordan's King Hussein, Foreign Ministers Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria and Omar Saqqaf of Saudi Arabia. This week the latest shuttler, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, arrives to spend four days conferring with Kissinger and President Ford...
Arab Tilt. Some key offices have gone to dependable veterans: Rabin's old comrade-in-arms Yigal Allon, 55, becomes Foreign Minister as well as continuing as Deputy Premier, while former Transport and Communications Minister Shimon Peres, 51, takes over Defense from Moshe Dayan. But Rabin has appointed others, including five newcomers, who may tilt Israel's new government toward more flexible dealings with Arab nations. Perhaps his most controversial Cabinet choice is Mrs. Shulamit Aloni, 45, head of the dovish Citizens Rights Movement, who advocates the return of most occupied Arab lands in exchange for a Middle...
...disgruntled veterans, Israeli doves and even members of his own Labor Party faction, who questioned his leadership. The commission's apparent whitewash of Dayan stirred fresh and damning attacks on the Defense Minister from within the government, principally from a left-wing Labor faction led by Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. Allon's supporters and the far-left Mapam faction threatened to bring down the government by voting against it if Dayan was not removed. Dayan's own Rafi faction warned that if he was ousted, it would also vote against the government...
...charges that the report was a whitewash and Elazar was being made a scapegoat. The Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot declared that both Premier Meir and Dayan were "full partners in the blunder," and should resign. The most serious threats came from within the ruling Labor Party. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who was upset by the humiliation of his old comrade-in-arms Elazar, told Knesset colleagues that Dayan must go. There were rumors that Allon would back up his demands by threatening to resign himself...