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Alfred Rosenthaler Tel Aviv...
...national purpose rather than tough immediate measures to bring it down. Says Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin's chief rival in the upcoming elections: "Vision is worth more than economic study, and the dreamer gets better results than the best professor of economics." One such economist, Tel Aviv University President Haim Ben-Shahar, feels that only a decisive leadership, the kind that would be brave enough to stand up to political pressure groups and cut defense spending, can assure the growth that Israel needs desperately. And when might economic redemption arrive? Israelis like to invoke a rabbinic adage popular...
Rabin's resignation was triggered by a most unlikely incident. On Friday afternoon, Dec. 10, welcoming ceremonies had been scheduled at an airport near Tel Aviv for the arrival of the first three of 25 American F-15 Eagle fighters that Israel has on order (U.S. officials later indicated that the day and timing had been set by Rabin). The arrangements outraged leaders of Israel's religious parties, since the ceremony ran so close to the Sabbath sundown that it violated the spirit of the approaching holy day. Only 20% of Israeli Jews are strictly observant...
Some Israelis were angered that their government had allowed the Arabs to seize the initiative. In a surprisingly harsh attack on Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Tel Aviv's popular afternoon daily Yidiot Aharonot portrayed "Sadat, the tongue-tied illiterate" as "setting the world's imagination on fire," while Israel's leaders "with their perfect English" always seem to lag far behind. Concluded the editorial: "Would that we had such boors" as Sadat. Rabin indicated that he was ready to negotiate with Arab leaders, but otherwise the response from Israeli officials was skeptical and even derisive in tone...
...early Israeli attempt to stop the dropouts involved trying to establish an air link between Moscow and Tel Aviv. In that way, Russian Jews might be flown directly to Israel, thus eliminating the Vienna stopover and the refugees' option to go elsewhere. When the Soviets refused to sanction the new air route, Israeli officials tried to persuade HIAS and other Jewish agencies to cut off all aid to the dropouts in Vienna. If this happened, Russian Jews seeking to come to the U.S. would be discouraged from applying to leave. This would sharply reduce emigration from the U.S.S.R...