Facing an existential threat in the 1960s, Israel hastily assembled an atomic device. What will Iran choose to do?

Levi Eshkol was one of the last of the members of the Second Aliyah to hold high office in Israel. Of his contemporaries and associates over a half-century, David Ben-Gurion. whom he succeeded as ...

Mr Levi Eshkol is likely to continue as Prime Minister as a result of the Israeli elections yesterday, and Mr Ben-Gurion's group (Rafi) has emerged as one of the smaller parties. The assault of ...

Fifty years have passed since Levi Eshkol died. In effect, he was Israel’s second prime minister after David Ben-Gurion. (The second on paper, Moshe Sharett, really was just a shadow for a while ...

Ramat Eshkol is a Jewish neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, built after the Six Day War. The neighborhood and the nearby road, Eshkol Boulevard, are named after Levi Eshkol, Israel’s third ...

Instead, he should look to Levi Eshkol to learn how to bring the country together when it is truly needed. History will thank him. The writer is a political analyst and tour educator.

Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (L) and David Ben-Gurion at Lydda Airport before the latter's departure to England for Winston Churchill's funeral, January 1965.

Herzog and The Under-Appreciated Eshkol. By Josh Marshall | March 15, 2015 4:02 p.m. Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter.