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Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir , 1915-, Zionist activist and Israeli politician, b. Poland. Emigrating (1935) to Palestine, he was twice arrested by the British for participating in a militant Jewish organization; in 1946 he fled to France. Returning (1948) to Israel , he served in the secret service until 1965. H... Read more
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres , 1923-, Israeli politician, b. Vishniva, Poland (now in Belarus) as Shimon Perski. He and his parents emigrated to Palestine in 1934; his grandparents were killed in the Holocaust . Before the birth of the Israeli nation (1949) he served as manpower chief of the Haganah, the fledgling... Read more

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Shamir, Yitzhak
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Shamir, Yitzhak (1915– ) Israeli...British mandate in Palestine. Shamir became head (1955–65...and Gaza Strip . Defeated by Yitzhak Rabin in 1992 elections, Binyamin Netanyahu replaced Shamir as leader of Likud. http... Read more
Yitzhak Shamir
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and 1988, Likud and Labor formed a government of national unity in which Shamir served as foreign minister (1984-86) and prime minister (1986-90). From 1990 to 1992 Shamir was prime minister of a Likud-led right-wing government. Bibliography: See... Read more
Peres, Shimon
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...cabinet under Golda Meir , and became minister of defence under Yitzhak Rabin . In 1977, he succeeded Rabin as leader of the Labour...government, Peres entered a power-sharing arrangement with Yitzhak Shamir . In 1992, he lost the party leadership to Rabin, and subsequently... Read more
Shimon Peres
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...alternated (1984-86) in the office with Likud party leader Yitzhak Shamir in a national unity government and was widely praised...unity governments led by the prime minister. In 1992, Yitzhak Rabin , who had just ousted Peres as Labor party leader... Read more
Stern gang
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...policemen. He was killed by British security forces in February 1942, but the gang survived under its new leader, Yitzhak Shamir . In November 1944 it killed Lord Moyne, the British minister in the Middle East. Read more
Begin, Menachem
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. Re-elected by a narrow margin in 1981, Begin maintained a hardline stance towards the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His popularity waned after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and he was succeeded by Yitzhak Shamir. Read more
David Levy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Likud-led government established by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in June 1990, while retaining the position of deputy...so-called "constraints ministers" who reduced Prime Minister Shamir's ability to move ahead on the peace plan which had... Read more
Camp David Accords
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...Americans. During the next decade, Begin and his successor, Yitzhak Shamir, expanded the number of Israeli settlements on the West Bank...the peace process stalemated, resuming in earnest only after Yitzhak Rabin was elected prime minister in 1992. The Oslo peace accords... Read more
Moshe Arens
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...market prices instead of the high spot market price. Although sometimes seen as a potential successor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Arens did not always see himself in that role. He expressed preference for airplane design rather than politics... Read more

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Shamir, Yitzhak
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Shamir, Yitzhak (born Yitzhak Jazernicki ) (1915– ) Israeli statesman, Prime...member of IRGUN and the STERN GANG . On Menachem Begin's retirement in 1983, Shamir became Premier, but his Likud party was narrowly defeated in elections a... Read more
Peres, Shimon
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...government with the Likud Party in 1984, later serving as deputy to Yitzhak Shamir. As Foreign Minister from 1992 he played a major role in negotiating...peace accord (1993) and shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. He replaced Rabin as Prime Minister... Read more
Israel
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...right-wing leader of the Likud Party, Yitzhak SHAMIR , led a government (1986–92) firmly...as Prime Minister, the Labour leader Yitzhak RABIN , progress towards an eventual...the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November by a Jewish extremist... Read more

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Israeli elections: left face? (election of Yitzhak Rabin)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/6/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...led by the uncharismatic Yitzhak Shamir, has had the advantage of...ditched the dovish Peres for Yitzhak Rabin, the popular former...illustrate. The last time Shamir ran for re-election, in 1988...independent Jewish state. Now, Shamir himself is using it as a bridge...Sabra) Israeli prime ... Read more
Or cut bait. (Israel and occupied territories)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/4/1989; 365 words ; YITZHAK SHAMIR, the man who as these words are written...no claim and no title. The totalists in Shamir's party and beyond it-the Sharons and the...occupation to continue in saecula saeculorum. Shamir, after wobbling in the direction of the... Read more
Netanyahu's star begins to wane. (Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...opinion polls. The man who replaced Yitzhak Shamir as party leader in the aftermath...minds of many Americans. A job in Yitzhak Shamir's administration, as a deputy...old guard party leadership of Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon and others retreated... Read more
Blundering towards a solution. (Israel's blockade of Occupied Territories may yet result in a Palestinian state)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 5/1/1993; 700+ words ; NO ONE WOULD accuse Yitzhak Rabin of being unduly subtle. The...with the Arabs which his predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir, had deliberately maintained. Bashing...minister in an uneasy coalition with Shamir's Likud party he pursued an iron fist... Read more
Settlements by the back door. (Israel's funding of new settlements in Occupied Territories)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 5/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...SCEPTICS AMONG Palestinians and other Arabs who said after Israel's elections in June 1992 that Yitzhak Rabin's Labour party and Yitzhak Shamir's Likud differed only in style, not substance, are looking increasingly smug. They also have reason... Read more
Squaring the circle. (Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Washington)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/5/1989; 189 words ; ...rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's proposals for limited self-rule...Mubarak also refused to meet with Shamir, who was scheduled to arrive in...conference on the Middle East, which Shamir has rejected out of hand. (Israel... Read more
The Arab Minority in Israel: 1967-1991.
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 5/1/1993; 700+ words ; ...Israel mark a watershed in Palestinian-Jewish relations, as noted elsewhere in this issue. The governments of Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin have both paid lip-service to the principle of autonomy for Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza... Read more
Smooth talker on the right. (Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of right-wing Likud, gains attention)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...the former ousted prime minister Yitzhak Shamir as leader of the Likud party...Knesset that year and served in Yitzhak Shamir's government until it was voted...was this defeat which prompted Shamir's resignation and the leadership... Read more
Israel moves right.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/30/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...between 10 and 25 per cent of its popular support, while Yitzhak Shamir's rightist Likud has gained about 7 per cent, This trend...insiders have paid little attention to Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin's claims that Labor is losing its image as a centrist... Read more
The politics of pardon: Israel and Jonathan Pollard.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Pollard or his family. The State of Israel did not hire him and did not assign him an espionage mission. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 11 March 1987(1) Granted, I broke the law. But, to tell you the truth, I'd rather be rotting in prison than sitting... Read more