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...days later the Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot broke the news of an even more drastic change. Finance Minister Aridor, the paper said, was preparing a plan under which the Israeli economy would be linked to the U.S. dollar. Everything, including wages, prices, pensions and interest, would be expressed in dollars, thereby eliminating the indexing that has fueled Israel's triple-digit inflation rate...
...case, the affair produced some unconcealed jubilation in Israel. Gloated the independent Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot: "Sadat certainly learned that while he is engaged in world politics, his own house is about to fall in on him. One cannot foster imperial greatness while going bankrupt at home." That was a shortsighted view indeed; if Sadat had fallen, the chances were strong that his successor might be more inclined toward a renewed confrontation with Israel...
Some Israelis were angered that their government had allowed the Arabs to seize the initiative. In a surprisingly harsh attack on Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Tel Aviv's popular afternoon daily Yidiot Aharonot portrayed "Sadat, the tongue-tied illiterate" as "setting the world's imagination on fire," while Israel's leaders "with their perfect English" always seem to lag far behind. Concluded the editorial: "Would that we had such boors" as Sadat. Rabin indicated that he was ready to negotiate with Arab leaders, but otherwise the response from Israeli officials was skeptical and even derisive in tone...
...West Bank mayors have quit in protest and Israeli-sponsored elections scheduled to be held in 25 communities on April 12 may be canceled. Even some Israelis are becoming critical of Jerusalem's sometimes insensitive administration of the West Bank communities. Writing in the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, Zvi Al Peleg, former occupation commander of Nablus and the Gaza Strip, noted: "The stones thrown will not drive Israel out of the area. But perhaps they will shatter some illusions about our being the wisest and best conquerors in history...
...unfair personal attacks. Israeli commentators have repeated his opponents' charges that Rabin drinks too much and makes backbiting remarks about even close colleagues. Wrote Ha'aretz Columnist Yoel Marcus recently: "Instead of inspiring, he is weak. Instead of uniting ranks, he divides." Gloomed the Jerusalem daily Yediot Aharonot: "A government crisis is looming because the Prime Minister's status has deteriorated...