Word: yitzhak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lady's matter-of-fact self-assessment: "I am a bitch." Many in Israel agree. The late Levi Eshkol called her a shrew. Yitzhak Raphael, a National Religious Party leader, labeled her a liar. She has been threatened with murder and having acid thrown in her eyes. She is sometimes tailed by thugs, and she gets more hate mail than an Arab sympathizer. Says former Education Minister Zalman Aranne: "She leaves scorched people and scorched earth behind...
Sylvie's epigrammatic style epitomizes what Europeans call the feuilleton -writing characterized by witticisms, plays on words, learned references and clever insults. Some of her targets feel that she is not all that clever. When Yitzhak Raphael was being considered for Golda Meir's coalition Cabinet, Sylvie charged-in the words of the libel suit that Raphael later brought against her-"that he pretended, and still pretends to hold an academic title to which he is not entitled." She also said that he had "strange associations with very dubious people-a man who has underground connections, a card...
...highest for any month since 1967-43 soldiers and 18 civilians killed and 105 soldiers and 31 civilians wounded. In the kibbutzim along the northern and eastern borders, Israelis spend more and more time underground. "A couple of years ago, a shelter was where you ran to," said Yitzhak Carmel, a farmer on a settlement near Jordan. "Now it often seems to be the place you live in." At the Maoz Chaim kibbutz, 150 children have been sleeping underground for two years. Many of the shelters have become elaborate installations, complete with lights, water, chemical toilets and good ventilation...
Strong Language. The U.S. plan, in any case, created a government crisis. Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington for a special Cabinet meeting. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin, rejected the proposals in unusually strong language. The U.S. Jewish community was anguished by the deepest rift between the U.S. and Israel since Washington forced Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory seized during the 1956 Suez crisis. Leaders of 14 Jewish organizations called on Rogers, and a heated two-hour meeting ensued. They counterpointed another group-including Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller...