Word: yigal
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...ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter-the world...
...Concessions. Thus Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government last week decided to demonstrate some diplomatic initiative of its own. From Jerusalem came reports that the government was considering new Sinai concessions in order to resume the Kissinger talks. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, bound for the U.S. to make some fund-raising appearances, persuaded Kissinger to receive him in Washington in order to emphasize Israel's willingness to continue negotiations...
...office of Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Dinitz, subtle and clearheaded, is fully aware of the current concerns of American Jews. "There is more talk of a second Munich in the United States than in Israel," he observes. "As Foreign Minister Yigal Allon has said, Ford is not a Chamberlain, Sadat is not a Hitler, and Israel is not a Czechoslovakia. But great apprehension exists...
...Israeli-Egyptian confrontation in the Sinai, the easiest problem to untangle. In Jerusalem and Cairo, Kissinger offered no solutions but solicited from both sides a general idea of their minimum and maximum concessions. Thus there was no need for formal positions, policy clarifications or what Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon at one point referred to as "new miracles" from the Middle East's proclaimed miracle worker...
...Cairo, Egyptian leaders who in December had damned Israeli proposals for further disengagement in Sinai were having kinder thoughts in January. They surmised that Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Yigal Allon had initially put together an unacceptable package in order to mollify Israeli hawks and were now ready for serious bargaining. "The time is ripe for continued diplomatic efforts to bring peace to the area," said Egyptian Information Minister Ahmad Kamal Abul-Magd. "Cairo is keeping all bridges open...