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...some Israelis to question his leadership. If Rabin's fragile coalition majority in the Knesset were to collapse, there are several men who are not only willing but eager to succeed him. One potential future Premier is articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Another is former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who was recently cleared by a fact-finding of responsibility for Israel's poor showing at the outset of the October...
...their caucuses. The party is now so deeply in debt-an estimated $4 million-that its headquarters in Tel Aviv has trouble paying its telephone bills. Ironically, according to some critics, the chances of peace might actually improve if the dovish Rabin were replaced by either Peres or Dayan, both of whom have reputations as hawks. The theory is that a noted hard-liner would be better able than Rabin to convince the Israelis that they will have to give up not only large parts of the Sinai, which even opposition politicians are ready to surrender, but also the more...
Rabin does not follow former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's post-1967 belief that Israeli military superiority alone will win peace with the Arabs. Nor does he agree with former Prime Minister Golda Meir that "there are no Palestinians...
...penthouse apartment in a North Tel Aviv suburb. Their daughter Dahlia, 24, is an apprentice lawyer, and Son Yuval, 19, is a tank-corps officer stationed in Sinai. For years the family lived in a house in the Tel Aviv suburb of Zahala, just around the corner from Moshe Dayan, but decided to move last year. For one thing, says the vivacious Leah Rabin with a sniff, living next to Dayan was noisy because his motorcade was constantly careening around in front of their house. Her husband, by contrast, is a shy man of simple tastes who "eats only...
...government is under fire from a small but articulate dovish-left and a powerful right. And the government, considered the most dovish in Israel's history, also fails to enjoy the clear support of some of the most powerful figures within Rabin's own Labor Party, notably Moshe Dayan and Abba Eban...