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...Nigeria failed to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars for a chain of luxury hotels he was building, Gaon reportedly asked Shamir's government to allow Israeli banks in Switzerland to give him loan guarantees. When Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad refused, Gaon urged Tami Leader Aharon Abuhatzeira to call for new elections. Gaon, who co-founded the Tami Party in 1981, vigorously denied any interference...
...meantime, the man who had become Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Aharon Abuhatzeira, was facing charges of theft, fraud and violation of public trust, allegedly committed, while he served as mayor of Ramie, near Tel Aviv, in the 1970s. Any of these relatively minor political difficulties within Begin's fragile coalition could be sufficient, in the end, to jolt him from power...
...happened, the Begin government's unbecoming exit was even accompanied by a last-minute scandal. The Knesset voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Cabinet Minister Aharon Abuhatzeira, head of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, so that he could face criminal indictment. Abuhatzeira had been under investigation for months as an alleged recipient of bribes in return for having funneled government funds to phantom religious institutions...
...Abuhatzeira affair is a major embarrassment to the battered government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which last month narrowly survived a motion of no confidence. The accused Minister belongs to the National Religious Party, whose twelve Knesset votes are essential to the survival of Begin's coalition. The charges against Abuhatzeira have renewed tensions between the country's politically and culturally dominant Ashkenazi Jews, of European background, and the Sephardic Jews, from the Middle East, the Balkans and North Africa. Abuhatzeira is from the Sephardic community, which sometimes feels it is a second-class society within Israel. Wrote...
Despite the probability that Abuhatzeira would be indicted, Begin refused to ask him to take a leave of absence from the ministry. Nonetheless, Begin shares the view of most Israelis, that justice must be done. At stake is an impressive level of public honesty that has brought down more powerful figures than Abuhatzeira for less serious offenses. In April 1977, for example, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was forced to resign after admitting that he and his wife had had a small but illegal U.S.-dollar bank account in Washington while he served as Israel's Ambassador...