The death on April 30th, at the age of 102, of Mr Netanyahu's rigidly right-wing father, Ben-Zion, a distinguished historian, has rekindled hopes on the left and fears on the right of a new pragmatism in the son.
Eliahu Ben-Elissar, a right-wing politician who helped negotiate Israel's peace treaty with Egypt and later served as ambassador to Egypt, the United States and France, died Saturday in Paris.
—Ben Taub A few years ago, a Royal Air Force wing commander visited the British aeronautics engineer Nigel Gifford, to discuss the idea of dropping aid from the sky to besieged civilians in Syria.
That game marked the debut of a new top line that featured the Eagles' BRIAN GIONTA, a senior from Rochester, on right wing with TONY VOCE, a freshman forward from Philadelphia, and BEN EAVES, a freshman from Fairbault, Minn.
Meir had few qualifications for the job; she was preferred mainly because she accepted Ben-Gurion's conception of the Foreign Ministry as little more than the PR wing of the Ministry of Defence.
In the course of his negotiations, he proposed a coalition to Menachem Begin, the head of the right-wing Herut Party, despite Ben-Gurion's belief that if Mr. Begin ever came to power, he would bring Israel to the "precipice of destruction".
BEN AUSTIN, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
BEN MCGRATH: Hi everybody.
BEN LIEBERMAN Maynard, Mass.
BEN LUNINE Berkeley, Calif.
