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Begin's latest illness came at a time when the Prime Minister had seemed to be in unusually good health and spirits. The resignation of his Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, in late May had seemed to galvanize his determination to save his tottering government. Begin's speeches had thereafter been notable for their feisty and aggressive tone. "I feel terrific," he had been telling friends. Indeed, the night before the debate he had stayed up late at a bar mitzvah party for a friend...
...unexpected defections of two members from the small party called the Democratic Movement. That left the Prime Minister with a majority of only three seats in the 120-member Knesset. Two of those votes belong to his former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and his recently resigned Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Both men might well vote for early elections. In a speech to Haifa University graduates last week, Dayan declared, "The time has come for us to send the ball back into the people's court and have them decide whom they want as their leaders...
...Your former Defense Minister [Ezer Q. Weizman] has said he is hopeful your government will collapse...
...Minister, a rare opportunity, but you have abandoned it out of ambition that is mind-numbing." Privately, Begin professed astonishment at Weizman's resignation. "I've told all my friends I'm not going to stay in politics after I'm 70," he told aides. "Ezer is still young. He could have been Prime Minister one day. Why did he have to push so hard and do it in such a brutal...
...emotional guy," says Ezer Weizman, whose three-year career as Israel's Defense Minister has been a continuous exercise in emotion. Whether he is angrily accusing his government of not wanting peace, or embracing Anwar intensity after Israel signed a treaty with Egypt, Weizman's intensity is evident to friends and foes alike...