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Ezer Weizman was an Israel politician and military leader. He served as Defense Minister under Menachem Begin 1 and later became President of Israel.1
Ezer Weizman urged Menachem Begin 1 to sign the Camp David Accords, which Menachem Begin 1 reluctantly did under pressure from Jimmy Carter. In 1978, Menachem Begin 1 dispatched Ezer Weizman to Pretoria to meet P.W. Botha of South Africa to discuss Israel-South Africa relations. Despite Menachem Begin 1 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
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War") ↩︎