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...most nations, when the head of state takes a holiday the people relax. But not in Israel. Bushy-haired, brittle-tempered Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion habitually uses the threat of a holiday to intimidate his opponents and bring dissident leaders of his ruling Mapai Party back into line. Last week Ben-Gurion did it again...
...Talmud. Polish-born Pinhas Lavon was Israel's Defense Minister until 1955, when he was forced from office for what has been mysteriously described as a "disastrous affair'' in the previous year.- Lavon loudly denied responsibility, insisted he had been framed by two of Ben-Gurion's proteges: Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, Director General of the Defense Ministry...
...widened and proliferated to include arguments about Israel's future economic state, government decentralization and the role of Histadrut, the nation's powerful labor federation, which is now led by Lavon. Most importantly, it involves the question of who is eventually to succeed 74-year-old Ben-Gurion as Prime Minister. Lavon, who is only 56, plainly considers himself available...
Order for Affair. In October, a judicial commission investigating the tortuous Lavon affair heard a senior official admit he had arranged the forging of a letter that said Lavon gave his approval to the "disastrous" operation. The decision last week was passed on to the Cabinet. Ben-Gurion angrily insisted that Lavon, who admittedly helped plan the affair even if he did not order it into operation, should not be allowed to get off scot free and leave patriotic army officers holding...
...news was cause for worry-not that anyone thought that Israel's David Ben-Gurion is less to be trusted with nuclear weapons than Khrushchev. The point is that any nation of any size with brains and money can now set itself up in the atomic business. And it can be done in relative secrecy. Though one of 40 nations with whom the U.S. shares information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, Israel had not mentioned the reactor to U.S. embassy officials in Tel Aviv, who were led to believe that the Negev construction was for a textile...