Israel's History:
1966

1966:
by Michael Bassin, 2003 Israel Affairs IGB

1966 was a pretty busy year for the State of Israel!

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon won the Nobel Prize for Literature with another Jewish author, Nellie Sachs.
• Abbie Natan, an Israeli peace activist, flew to Egypt in a revolutionary step towards bringing Israel and Egypt together in peace.
• The Coca Cola Company affirmed its support for Israel by rejecting the Arab League’s threat to not import Coca Cola products.
• The construction of the Knesset building was completed.
• An economic plan calling for less government spending and less private consumption leads to an excessive slowdown of the economy and mass unemployment.
• Educational television broadcasts began for the first time.