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...massacre by Lebanese Christians of an estimated 800 Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps, they reacted with anger and astonishment. Political leaders, including President Yitzhak Navon, demanded a formal investigation of the role that the Israeli army had played in allowing the Christian militiamen into the camps. In Tel Aviv, a mass rally of 400,000 Israelis, an extraordinarily large crowd for so small a country, protested Begin's refusal to launch an official inquiry. In his defense, the Prime Minister accused his country's critics abroad of committing a "blood libel" against Israel, and added, "Goyim kill goyim...
Otherwise, the Begin government did not fare well last week. Shareholders of Israel's 34-year-old national airline, El Al, which has long been plagued by deficits and labor unrest, voted to dissolve the company. Professors at Tel Aviv University were on strike, Foreign Ministry employees were threatening to stage a walkout, and truck drivers, angry about new taxes, were trying to block the main highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...villa at Nofim against any other residential project in Israel," urges the newspaper ad. From every window, it promises, "a beautiful mountain landscape is visible." There will be "green areas, public areas, communal facilities and an exclusive country club," all of it only 40 minutes by car from Tel Aviv. Best of all, each villa, which will be built on a quarter acre of land, may be purchased for $90,000, a third of which is covered by government-financed mortgages and loans. This is not a bad deal, since a similar home in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv could easily...
...Israel's Cabinet early last week to dissolve El Al, the country's national airline, sparked the most shocking labor confrontation of many in the carrier's strife-torn history. On Tuesday hundreds of protesting El Al workers stormed the Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv. The demonstrators flattened tires on the cars of El Al officials, ransacked the airline's offices, roughed up newsmen and burned effigies of the members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government while shouting, "Begin ben zonah [Begin is an s.o.b...
Confronted by a mounting crisis, Begin asked government negotiators to resume talks with the El Al employees. Appeased for the moment, most of the protesters quietly left the airport Thursday morning. Several Israeli newspapers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv accused Begin of backing down in the face of violence...