Word: flatto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Levy took the initiative in the buttonholing campaign. His recruiting centered on half a dozen independents. One was Samuel Flatto-Sharon, a businessman who had been convicted in France on fraud charges and is currently on trial for bribery in Israel. Another was Shafik Assad, a Druze member from Galilee. The independents were courted with a wide range of inducements: for Assad, a new community center for his native village; for others, promises of deputy ministershlps. Even among Begin's own aides, the reaction to the brazen corridor bargaining verged on outrage. "It's never happened before that...