Word: zvai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighter. Born in Lithuania in 1925, he emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. Later he served two years in the U.S. Army and studied aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel, where he joined the Irgun Zvai Leumi and met Menachem Begin. In 1980, while he was serving as a right-wing legislator who had opposed the peace treaty with Egypt, Arens turned down the chance to become Ezer Weizman's successor as Defense Minister, apparently because he did not want to be in charge of the dismantling...