Friend or foe? Is Fuad the Palestinians' best bet? Lawrence Joffe profiles Israeli defence minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Current Affairs).

The Middle East | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

An Israeli party leader called Fuad? And Labor at that? Bizarre though it may sound, on 26 December 2001, the bastion of Israel's Ashkenazi (European Jewish) establishment elected an Iraqi-born Jew as its new chairman. No Sephardi, or Oriental Jew, had ever won such a prize, in either Labor or Likud, during 53 years of Israel's existence.

The man who follows in the footsteps of David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin is Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. Born in 1936 and named Fuad, he assumed the Hebrew moniker, Binyamin, after being smuggled into the fledgling State of ...

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