Friends tell...




Eshkol had his own method of cutting conversations short. Since he was always a busy man, he was unhappy with long conversations and "chit-chatter." It was a planned impatience. When a "Nudnik" arrived saying: "I am coming to you with a complicated matter. So complicated that I can't decide where to begin," Eshkol didn't even let him warm the chair, and said: "Sir, start at the end!"

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"…people protest that I do not make a firm decision and that I see justice on both sides" - "I don't understand why you blame yourself" said Hanna Zemer (the editor of "Davar"), "seeing both sides of the coin is a good quality!" , "Yes" he said, " But I see at least three sides of the coin..."

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...on the co-ed swimming pool that was built in Jerusalem despite protests from Jewish religious groups: "Have the orthodox Jews show me where it says in the Torah 'You shall not build a swimming pool."

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"… The Press published what I think when I did not yet decide what to think. When three people sit together at the same meeting, it is understood that there must be a leakage. It is normal. But when I walk in my room, alone, thinking, and the Press prints it on the front page…’