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...little Polish immigrant has long been recognized as one of the country's most dynamic politicians. Begin suffered a heart attack (complicated by pneumonia) at the beginning of the eleven-week campaign, but he displayed surprising vigor when he appeared before hundreds of cheering supporters last week in Tel Aviv at Likud headquarters?known as "the Castle"?to claim victory. He was asked, as Premier-designate, what his plans were for the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza. "What occupied territories?" Begin roared. "If you mean Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, they are liberated territories, part...
...AVIV--After Israel's parliamentary elections yesterday, Israeli televsion broadcasters predicted the Labor Party would lose substantial support in the Israeli parliament to the right-wing Likud Party...
...list. Peres, who became Israel's acting head of government when Yitzhak Rabin stepped down because of a family financial scandal (TIME, April 25), is expected to lead the Labor Party to a victory in Israel's mid-May general elections despite the Rabin embarrassment. In Tel Aviv last week, Peres stressed the complications involved in trying to hold Geneva talks this year. He agreed with Carter that no talks would be infinitely better than unsuccessful talks. He also warned that if the talks were begun but soon broke down, the threat of war could not be ruled...
...seeds of Rabin's humiliating downfall had been germinating for weeks, ever since the Tel Aviv daily newspaper Ha'aretz reported that the Premier's wife had held a bank account in Washington for the past four years (TIME, March 28). It is illegal for Israeli citizens to keep money abroad without special permission, and Mrs. Rabin had not sought such permission. She provided an explanation that sounded convincing enough at the time: the account at the National Bank of Washington, which amounted to about $2,000, was an old one, dating from the years...
...midnight. Despite his heavy work load, he finds time to write poetry, which he keeps to himself, and has published two books, including David's Sling, an autobiographical account of his role in building Israel's defenses. At home in his small, book-lined apartment in Tel Aviv, where he lives with his wife Sonia and two of his three children, he speaks mainly of literature; his tastes range from Norman Mailer to Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Yukio Mishima...