Ezer Weizman
Israeli Defense Minister under Begin who negotiated the SIMWA wartime alliance with South Africa and later became President of Israel.
Ezer Weizman was an Israeli politician and military leader. He served as Defense Minister under Menachem Begin and later became President of Israel.1
Weizman urged Begin to sign the Camp David Accords, which Begin reluctantly did under pressure from Carter. In 1978, Begin dispatched Weizman to Pretoria to meet Prime Minister P.W. Botha of South Africa to discuss Israeli-South African relations. Despite Begin's intentions to downgrade the relationship, Weizman agreed with 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
Sources
- Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩
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