Word: simcha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raised immediate objections to the new policy. "People should not be forced to go to a country they don't want to live in," said an American diplomat in Moscow. Retorted World Zionist Organization Head Simcha Dinitz: "Israel is not a travel agent...
...died after a long illness. Three months later, an independent Israeli commission looking into the massacre of more than 700 Arabs in Beirut refugee camps last September concluded that he shared a "certain degree of responsibility." Then came the death of his friend and confidant Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich. Meanwhile, as the situation in Lebanon deteriorated, Begin became deeply concerned that history would not look favorably on his tenure...
...puzzled Israelis and Americans alike. For months he has reportedly been depressed by the apparent failure of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as well as by the death last November of his wife of 43 years. His grief worsened five weeks ago when his trusted friend Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich died suddenly. As an aide put it, "If you're not in the mood to sing, can you sing...
...DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio...
...burly ex-general had been running the war more and more on his own, on this occasion he solicited the Cabinet's support for a series of tactical moves around Beirut as part of the Israelis' continuing effort to strengthen their military positions. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, who had generally supported Sharon in the past, immediately declared that the request was out of the question. Taking up the argument, the Moroccan-born David Levy, another Deputy Prime Minister, who has been a consistent critic of Sharon, declared, "The country is confused. Government decisions are being violated: steps...