Word: simcha
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Cabinet of Prime Minister Menachem Begin quickly rejected the proposal, particularly objecting to the call for a Palestinian state. Privately, however, a number of Israeli officials acknowledged that the plan seemed to represent some changes in Saudi thinking. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich described the initiative as being "a turning point to a certain extent" Begin was on vacations and offered no commont on the Saudi proposal. But it is a safe guess that when he visits Washington on Sept. 9 he will emphasize to Ronald Reagan that he would prefer to stick to the Camp David format and bypass...
...most Israelis, the crime statistics are less troubling symptoms of social malaise than the emigration figures, which seem to fly in the face of Israel's very purpose. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich somewhat hyperbolically described emigration last December as "the most important national problem." The Zionist goal of "ingathering of the exiles" was for decades complemented by the exiles' dream of aliya -"going up" to the homeland. The opposite phenomenon of yerida - "going down" to the outside