Word: gilada
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...obsession with verbal precision, concentrating instead on the practical reality that the words are meant to address. An uninspired and an uninspiring speaker, Shamir is also less divisive than Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before Israel's independence and a covert agent and high official of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. (Even his surname had been a deception; born Jazernicki...