- Deserts
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020