Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik, Leo)

1895 - 1969
Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik Leo) was born in 1895 in Ukraine. He graduated from the Jewish school in Vilnius. At age 18, immigrated to Palestine. During the war of 1914. served in the Jewish Legion. One of the founders of the Histadrut. In 1937, negotiated the immigration of German Jews in Palestine. A member of the Palmach. Minister of Defense in 1950-51 he. One of the founders of Israel's defense industry. In 1952-63 he. - Minister of Finance of the State of Israel.
In 1963, Ben-Gurion resigned as prime minister, and Levi Eshkol became prime minister. He went to the rapprochement with the Herut movement. In 1965 the movement united with the Liberal Party and formed a political bloc Gahan. In 1973, he was transformed into Likud. In 1964 Levi Eshkol agreed on what would be the ashes of Zeev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, was brought to Israel for burial. Before the Six Day War, during June 1967, Levi Eshkol formed the first government of national unity in a block with Gahan. The war, ultimately, changed the political map, and the main political issue was the question of territories occupied by Israel during the war: the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights. The consequence of the war was also the fact that the PLO and other Palestinian organizations have increased terrorist attacks against Israel and Israeli targets abroad.
Levi Eshkol died in 1969 in his prime minister's office.

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