Word: aharonot
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...Lederman, who asked, "Do you want tea?" Dayan responded, "Please." Then Lederman, later revealed to be a right-wing extremist and convicted murderer, allegedly tossed the steaming brew into her face. Dayan suffered second-degree burns; Lederman turned himself in two days later. Dayan lamented in the daily Yediot Aharonot that nothing had improved since the assassination. Political extremism in Israel, she said, is "a hothouse that is continuing to breed something terrible. If we do not do anything substantial, we will fall apart...
...process. It is a debate, however, that the assassination of Rabin has turned suddenly and sharply against him. Likud and Netanyahu had for months been building up a big lead in public-opinion polls over the Labor government. But the first postassassination poll, published Friday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, showed that Rabin's successor, acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, would win 54% of the votes if an election were held today; Netanyahu would take only 23%. The poll also indicated that if a new Israeli Knesset were elected now, Labor would win 46 seats and Likud 30. That would...
Terrorism or no, the surge of grief for Rabin and emotional support for his cause cannot continue long at its present intensity. When it ebbs, Peres will again have to face the fact that Israel is a nation sharply and closely divided. The Yediot Aharonot poll shows that three-quarters of the public favors the peace process at the moment, but over the long run nearly half have expressed opposition...
...Secretary of State James Baker toured the region, the betting was that the Israeli leader would stall, if not turn Baker down flat. Defense Minister Moshe Arens predicted to the newspaper Yediot Aharonot that Baker would leave without any agreement that "will bring about the meeting he wants to organize." Even if Shamir accepted, right-wing parties would almost certainly leave his coalition and topple the government. New elections would then delay a peace conference further...
...Pollard affair has led to renewed criticism of Shamir and his Labor partners in the national unity government, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. One newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, published photos depicting the trio under the caption "Everyone covering up for everyone." In Ha'aretz, Commentator B. Michael wrote that the spy case, along with the Israeli role in Iranscam, was part of a pattern in which Israeli leaders have taken the position that "We did not know, did not hear, did not see, did not report, and we are not responsible...