Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even as Israel's international problems appeared to subside, serious national troubles cried for attention right outside Begin's hospital room. His illness was only a temporary shield from the political turmoil engendered by the harsh facts of Israel's runaway economic crisis: an 80% inflation that threatens to exceed 100% by the end of the year, a balance of payments deficit that is approaching $4 billion, a total foreign debt that has doubled in five years to $13 billion...
...confidence motion in the Knesset this week, even though Labor Leader Shimon Peres conceded that it had little chance of passage. Embattled Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich appeared to be barely weathering demands for his resignation. Factions of his own bickering Liberal Party, whose support is essential to Begin's Likud coalition, had earlier attacked him for withdrawing his proposed series of public spending cuts, which are considered necessary as a first step toward halting the inflation spiral...
With no solution in sight for Israel's economic crisis, Begin's government will be increasingly vulnerable to challenge from the opposition, from discontented Liberals and from restive members of his own Herut Party, like mercurial Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Recognizing that it is all a healthy Begin can do to control his contentious Cabinet, Israelis wondered how long the ailing Premier could do that...
...Syrian-backed Al Saiqa faction. The assassination of the top guerrilla leader roused irate reaction around the Arab world. Syria blamed the "Camp David Alliance" of Israel, Egypt and the U.S. for the killing. The P.L.O. command in Beirut charged that the hit team had been dispatched directly from Begin's office. Mohsen's own Saiqa group accused the Egyptian secret service and its Israeli counterpart, Mossad, of having conspired in the killing...
...evacuated Bedouins could well have nowhere to go at all for some time. The four new proposed industrial settlements have yet to be built, and the government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former...