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...Loevy, senior director of Israeli television in Tel Aviv, said he "didn't want to touch the Israeli-Arab conflict...I'm fed up with it." Instead he will concentrate on comparable conflicts among other groups and plans to study psychology, music and fine arts...
...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...
...another problem on his mind last week: forming a government. He was having a far harder time than expected in bargaining with his three potential partners, all small and conservative religious parties, to get the support he needed. Begin brought up the difficulty in an unusual setting in Tel Aviv. Wearing a black skullcap and sweating under the bright lights, he stood before an audience of the National Bible Quiz, a sort of Israeli College Bowl for scholars of the Old Testament. After telling the group how hard he had been working to try to put a new government together...
...talks about granting autonomy to the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tehiya, which will hold two or three seats, is led by Yuval Ne'eman, a world-renowned physicist who once was the head of military science for the army and the president of Tel Aviv University...
...campaign had exploded in anger and resulted in new and disquieting ethnic rifts in the population. Sephardi Jews, predominantly a working-class constituency in the new immigrant cities of Beersheba and Qiryat Shemona and the grimy slums of greater Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, rejected the traditional socialism of the Labor Party in favor of the radical right-wing nationalism of the Likud. In turn, the more affluent Ashkenazi Jews from northern Europe backed Labor. Ironically, Begin, an Ashkenazi from Poland, was idolized by his more extremist Sephardi followers, who proclaimed him "King of Israel" in campaign slogans and songs...