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Since July, Israeli police have been investigating allegations that Abuhatzeira, in 1978 and 1979, received 52,500 Israeli shekels (then worth about $15,000) in kickbacks from three Tel Aviv religious institutions. The bribes were allegedly for directing ministerial funds to yeshivot (religious schools) that did not in fact exist. As the storm broke over his head, Abuhatzeira appeared on Israeli television and cockily denounced the stories as "provocation and a libel...
...diplomatic corps packs up to move to Tel Aviv...
Ever since Israel was founded in 1948, one of the eccentricities of diplomatic life in the country has been the existence of two separate embassy communities. By far the larger one, in Tel Aviv, did not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's official capital and accepted the inconvenience of a 45-mile drive from the coast to the Judean Hills every time a diplomat wished to do business with Israel's Prime Minister or other key officials. By contrast, a smaller group of foreign ambassadors, consisting of twelve Latin Americans and a Dutchman, took the view that West Jerusalem...
...Jerusalem-including the eastern sector of the city, which was captured from Jordan in the 1967 war-to be the undivided and "eternal" capital of Israel. In response to the U.N. vote, all but three of the countries with envoys in Jerusalem announced that they would move to Tel Aviv, and by week's end it seemed likely that the rest would soon follow...
...Villanueva, 60, the popular dean of the city's diplomatic corps who has lived in Jerusalem for the past nine years. "The whole thing is comic," he declared, to the delight of many Israelis. "We protest, so we leave. And where to? To Tel Aviv, 45 minutes from here. Big deal...