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Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel. | 1924-06-15 | 2005-04-24 | Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
Ezer Weizman was an Israel politician and military leader. He served as Defense Minister under Menachem Begin and later became President of Israel.1
Ezer Weizman urged Menachem Begin to sign the Camp David summit, which Menachem Begin reluctantly did under pressure from Jimmy Carter. In 1978, Menachem Begin dispatched Ezer Weizman to Pretoria to meet P.W. Botha of South Africa to discuss Israel-South Africa relations. Despite Menachem Begin intentions to downgrade the relationship, Ezer Weizman agreed with P.W. Botha on a wartime alliance between the two governments as the price for continuing nuclear tests. This led to the creation of SIMWA (SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement).1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎