Levi Eshkol

Israel's open secret: Why is Dimona at the center of Israel’s nuclear weapon ambiguity? - explainer

In the 1960s, then prime minister Levi Eshkol vowed that “Israel will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons into the region.” The sentiment has been repeated by Israeli officials since.

 A view of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev desert outside Dimona, now called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.
 SCENE FROM ‘A Warrior & A Dreamer’ in celebration of Noa Eshkol.

No time to dance – a celebration of influential dancer Noa Eshkol

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How it really was: Israel’s first oil discovery

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files that prove Iran’s nuclear program in a press conference in Tel Aviv, in 2018.

Bibi’s Eshkol moment on the Iran question


Miriam Eshkol, wife of prime minister Levi Eshkol, dies at 87

Miriam Eshkol served in the Palmah, on convoys to the besieged Jerusalem, and in the War of Independence, in the artillery.

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Middle Israel: The seventh day

As it enters its 50th anniversary year, the Six Day War looms, for better and worse, as the most pivotal moment in the state’s history.

Jewish settler Refael Morris stands at an observation point overlooking the West Bank village of Duma, near Yishuv Hadaat, an unauthorized Jewish settler outpost

Declassified documents reveal Israel feared Egyptian attack on Dimona nuclear reactor

IDF archives releases documents to mark 48th anniversary of Six Day War.

The Six-Day War

The POSTman Knocks Twice: The 19-gun salute

I never had occasion to ask Eshkol how he felt when Hatikva sounded and the cannons saluted.

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The POSTman Knocks Twice: Eshkol and Johnson, Farmer meets farmer

The first state visit by an Israeli PM to the US.

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The Postman Knocks Twice: Levi Eshkol: Pioneer, planner, pragmatist

Prime minister Levi Eshkol loved to share anecdotes.

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Levi Eshkol: Forgotten hero

David Ben-Gurion was Israel’s state-builder. Levi Eshkol was the land-builder and people-builder.

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The note taker

For two decades, Yehuda Avner served four prime ministers and was privy to the deepest state secrets.

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The start of something larger than life

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Another Tack: Plucky in pajamas

In his humble night clothes Eshkol evinced more audacity than most of the wishy-washy variety that followed him in office.

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