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Accustomed though they are to high-voltage political shocks, Israelis must have found last week unusually electrifying. Premier Menachem Begin's coalition lost a crucial vote in the Knesset, thereby threatening a defection that could reduce his government's majority to two. Faced with protests by fanatic nationalists over the court-ordered evacuation of a Jewish settlement at Elon Moreh, the Cabinet unanimously voted to forge ahead with new settlements in the West Bank. But the most powerful jolt of the week was a Cabinet decision approving the deportation of the Palestinian mayor of the West Bank city...
Knesset members were outraged. After meeting with Begin, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who is Matt's superior, announced that Shaka'a would be deported to Jordan. Shaka'a's wife, however, managed to block the expulsion by winning an interim injunction from a justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. Weizman then ordered Shaka'a arrested and jailed until the court hearings...
...Cabinet meeting next day, Weizman stood by his original decision and urged the ministers to approve the deportation of Shaka'a. They did so unanimously. Except for one town leader in Gaza, a11 the remaining Palestinian mayors immediately resigned and later announced, for good measure, that they would begin a hunger strike. Many Israeli moderates were embarrassed by the Cabinet decision, believing it to be an exaggerated and heavyhanded response to a minor incident...
Perhaps because his thoughts dwelled so much on the West Bank last week, Begin seemed strangely impervious to his coalition's defeat in the Knesset over an amendment to the country's abortion law. Agudat Israel, an orthodox religious party, had joined the Begin bloc in exchange for the Premier's support of its campaign to limit abortions. A motion to tighten the country's laws on the matter was defeated in a tie vote, 54-54, when four members of Begin's own Likud Party voted against it. Agudat Israel huffed that its four...
...House and Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red tape, legal roadblocks and laws, like the Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives...