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...protest making it easy for draft dodgers. Teen-agers throughout the country circulated petitions demanding equality in the conscription system and urging that religious girls be required to do some useful nonmilitary service for the nation. Unexpected support for the opposition came from the Premier's wife, Aliza Begin, whose two daughters, Hasya, 32, and Leah, 30, served in the Israel Defense Forces. "Why should my daughter be drafted, and someone else's not be?" she asked. "There's injustice in that...
...initiatives so far indicates that the answer well may be yes. Begin should have no trouble taking forthright moves for he is bolstered by his enormous self-confidence. His countrymen appreciate this. According to a popular apocryphal story currently making the rounds in Israel, the Premier's wife Aliza ruins an omelet that she is preparing in the kitchen. In frustration she cries out: "Oh God!" Answers Menachem from the next room: "Never mind, Aliza. I only told you to call me that in public...
...spartan tastes, Begin rises at 5 to pray, eat and read the newspapers; he frequently calls editors to complain about "unfair" criticism. He is at his desk by 7. His rambling official residence in Jerusalem is almost too big for him and Wife Aliza, 57, now that two of their three children are married. They also have a Tel Aviv apartment, where he used to hold open house for friends. It is perhaps his only regret as Premier that he has had to curtail such evenings...
...Begin would get a warm reception. Said Carter: "I think that [he] is trying to bring with him an open mind and an ability to go to a possible peace conference with all items being negotiable." Begin was equally conciliatory. Boarding an El Al 747 jet with his wife Aliza, he said at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport: "I am leaving for the shores of America with a good hope in my heart...
...proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells of her years-long accommodation to her husband's mistress and his four sons, only three of whom are also hers. Another bitterly eloquent, if slightly self-pitying scene is provided by Ben Aliza as the Negro wooer of Iris' younger sister. Shattered to learn that his love has been a high-priced call girl, he recounts a childhood episode in which his porter father once swept the family table bare, vowing never again to live off "the white man's leavings...