Word: yitzhaks
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...time, the Egyptians had repulsed the first Israeli counterattacks along the Suez Canal, causing heavy casualties, and Israeli forces on the Golan Heights were retreating in the face of a massive Syrian tank assault. At 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, the Israeli Commander on the northern front. Major General Yitzhak Hoffi, told his superior: "I am not sure that we can hold out much longer." After midnight. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan solemnly warned Premier Golda Meir: "This is the end of the third temple."* Mrs. Meir thereupon gave Dayan permission to activate Israel's Doomsday weapons. As each bomb...
...Arabs died is still disputed. Minister of Police Shlomo Hillel insists that shots were fired in self-defense. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, replying to angry criticism in the Knesset the day after the shootings, argued that force had been necessary "to assure the well-being of the public." He accused the Rakah (Communist) Party and the Communist Youth Union of breaking into schools, beating up teachers and driving away pupils who wanted to study rather than strike. Merchants who wanted to keep their shops open were intimidated; roads were blocked, security forces assaulted. Thundered Rabin: "No state can acquiesce...
...confronted baton-wielding Israeli soldiers. In the worst incident, soldiers fired warning shots into a crowd of demonstrators, wounding three young Arabs, one critically. Disagreement on how to handle the troubles split the Israeli leadership. Defense Minister Shimon Peres rejected the idea of any stiffer military measures, but Premier Yitzhak Rabin, in a private talk with Peres, declared: "I don't care if we have to put the entire army in the West Bank. I want quiet and order, and I want...
...provide more than that for Egypt. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week, "I wouldn't be surprised to find a rifle or two on the list." But such arms deliveries may have trouble getting by a tough "Israel lobby" in Congress, especially since Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin promised that his government would oppose them...
...Disputed Telegram: "The telegram from President Ford [pressuring Israel to make further Sinai concessions] arrived just before Kissinger sat down with the Israeli negotiating team, and it turned the meeting into an icy confrontation. [Israeli Premier Yitzhak] Rabin told Kissinger that Israel would not accept dictation. He accused Kissinger of bringing in the President to pressure Israel. Kissinger claimed he had nothing to do with tbe presidential message. He said the Israelis seemed to think the President was a puppet whose strings were held by Kissinger. He said in disgust that if it were up to him, he would have...