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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Levi Eshkol

Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1983-1984, 1969-1974, as envisioned in Gavin Rain's artwork, part of the Prime Ministers in Perspective exhibit at Jerusalem's Biennale Gallery, April 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Clive Hassel/Reproduction of Artists Works for Brandsmiths and Myron Zeidel)
April 24, 2023, 11:40 pm
Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders
Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offers fresh perspectives for Israel’s 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old Shaare Zedek building
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative; Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Southern Front Commander Yigal Allon (to his right) and Yitzhak Rabin (between them) pictured on the southern front during the 1948 War of Independence. (IDF / Wikipedia)
April 27, 2020, 2:34 pm
Meanwhile, in other news, Israel’s Labor Party is finished
The party of Ben-Gurion, Eshkol, Meir and Rabin led Israel for decades. Now it has fallen so low, become so discredited and irrelevant, that even its demise barely makes a headline
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (L) and David Ben-Gurion at Lydda Airport before the latter's departure to England for Winston Churchill's funeral, January 1965. (GPO)
December 5, 2019, 10:11 am
Invite to Ben-Gurion memorial event uses photo of Levi Eshkol
Culture Ministry denies responsibility for confusing the PMs, after grandson of Israeli founding father’s chides officials for gaffe
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, book in hand, and Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, left, during a visit to the Hatzor Air Force Base on December 3, 2019. (Twitter screen capture)
December 4, 2019, 4:55 am
Bennett sets Twitter abuzz by carrying book of Khomeini’s writings
Defense minister spotted with tome on sharia law, possibly signaling to ayatollahs he’s on to them… or showing Israelis he’s as smart as iconic bookworm politicians of the past
By ToI Staff
Ben Maimon boulevard in Jerusalem was inspired by European thoroughfares and many of its early residents were immigrants from Europe. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 14, 2019, 10:01 am
Grandeur restored on Jerusalem’s Ben Maimon boulevard, home to our first PMs
Visitors to the capital can tour the revamped Levi Eshkol visitor center, the country’s oldest art gallery and view 1930s architecture on the European-inspired thoroughfare
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
US President John F. Kennedy and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion get together for a talk at the Waldorf Towers in 1961 (Walter Kelleher/NY Daily News via Getty Images, JTA)
May 7, 2019, 4:03 pm
Kennedy warned Eshkol US support was ‘jeopardized’ without nuclear inspections
US president was furious with the Jewish state over its atomic program, fearing the Soviet Union could use it as leverage, 1963 telegram recently posted online shows
By Ron Kampeas
Then-prime minister Levi Eshkol, center, and future prime minister Menachem Begin, right, greet troops in the Sinai Peninsula following the Six Day War on June 13, 1967. (GPO)
May 18, 2017, 3:42 pm
After Six Day War, cabinet debated West Bank’s future – and Charles De Gaulle’s nose
National archives release transcripts from 1967 cabinet meetings, showing the intense discussions and petty squabbles before, after and during the conflict
By Judah Ari Gross
Moshe Dayan at the Temple Mount, June 7, 1967 (Ilan Bruner / GPO)
May 15, 2017, 12:38 am
Pre-Six Day War Israel gets its own Twitter account
Ahead of 50th anniversary of reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, Foreign Ministry project imagines what people then would have tweeted
By Stuart Winer
A portrait of Miriam Eshkol, the late wife of former Prime Minister Levi Eskhol in 1964. (Pridan Moshe/GPO)
November 26, 2016, 10:57 pm
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Israel’s 3rd prime minister, dies at 87
As first lady, she dedicated herself to public life, was known for taking a vocal and active role in assisting her husband
By Tamar Pileggi
President Shimon Peres at a ceremony upon his reception of the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday, June 26, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)
October 1, 2016, 3:54 am
Mr. Peres goes to Washington
How Ben-Gurion’s young arms broker gave up on the Americans, only to become Israel’s most beloved figure in the US capital a half-century later
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, dancing with then Ugandan foreign minister Sam Odaka and army chief (and later president) Idi Amin on a visit to an army base outside Kampala, June, 1966. (GPO)
June 29, 2016, 7:47 pm
When the Israeli prime minister’s wife took a twirl with Idi Amin
As Netanyahu prepares for a whirlwind trip to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda next week, Israel releases previously unseen pictures of previous PMs’ visits to Africa
By Raphael Ahren
Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks, with Yehuda Avner in the background. (Courtesy of Moriah Films)
October 9, 2015, 1:22 pm
Rabin and Begin portrayed as ‘Soldiers and Peacemakers’ in new film
Second of two films based on memoir by former ambassador Yehuda Avner opens in the US on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Yitzhak Rabin, center, as Chief of IDF General Staff, during the Six Day War, speaking with the commander of the southern front, Yeshayahu Gavish (Courtesy of Israel Defense Force Archive)
June 4, 2015, 5:09 pm
Revealed, the war before the Six Day War
Immediately before the resort to conflict, Israel’s top generals and politicians clashed over how to address the Arab threat, with distrust and disdain bursting into the open, newly released papers show
By Mitch Ginsburg
German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Presidential Medal, Israel's highest honor, from then President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, Feb. 25, 2014. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images/ via JTA)
May 10, 2015, 1:15 am
It’s complicated: 50 years of German-Israeli ties
This summer’s European Maccabi Games will be held in a stadium Hitler built for the 1936 Olympics. Just one example of the country’s still complex relationship with the Jews
By Toby Axelrod
Israeli youth chant outside an Arab store in the Old City during Jerusalem Day's 'flag march,' May 21, 2009. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
April 28, 2015, 4:23 am
Before Jerusalem Day march, opponents aim to thwart racism
Citing recurrent nationalistic violence, local activists are mulling ways of protesting May’s annual flag parade through Old City’s Muslim Quarter
By Elhanan Miller
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