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...West Bank (where the population is 98% Palestinian) with a series of ugly incidents between Arab students and Israeli soldiers and police. But the chief cause of the government's rapidly declining popularity at home is the parlous state of the Israeli economy, which suffers from triple-digit inflation, high taxes, scarce and expensive housing, and unemployment. Following up on a previous decision to slash $140 million from the defense budget, the five-member economic Cabinet headed by Finance Minister Yigael Hurvitz last week recommended overall budget cuts of an additional $108 million. Indeed, Hurvitz is so worried about...
Certainly many Jews are leaving because of the deteriorating Israeli economy. Triple-digit inflation, high taxes, scarce and expensive housing and unemployment have had a dispiriting effect on the young and ambitious. "Why should I stay?" asks a 20-year-old stationed at a military base in the Negev. "When I get out of here in another year, what do I have to look forward to? Will I be able to find an apartment? No. Can I get married? That's a bit unrealistic without a home. What job will pay me enough to live on?" Says Manny Ender...
Meanwhile, alumni committees began planning spring 1980 dinners to reach potential five-digit donors, while area alumni groups devised strategies for next spring's less ambitious solicitations...
There remains the possibility that Carter and Sadat soon will be dealing not with Begin but with a successor. Begin's popularity is slipping badly in Israel, both because of domestic concerns (the primary one is triple-digit inflation) and because of his stand on the peace negotiations. Polls last week found that only 21% of the Israelis queried think he is the best man for the job, though no one else tops that figure. Moreover, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, whose popularity is second to Begin's in the government, asserted in a bombshell interview on Israeli...
...first three months of the primary season, Carter's candidacy was artificially buoyed by crises overseas, which caused Americans to rally around him at home, despite double-digit inflation and other domestic problems. Now, the public mood has changed. A national survey for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. on March 19 and 20 found American morale and confidence in the future at an alltime low; only 14% are optimistic, compared with a high of 47% early in the Carter Administration. Concern about inflation has surged; 74% of the 1,221 people interviewed consider...