Word: herut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Likud after the elections of 1984 resulted in political deadlock, Peres and Shamir swapped jobs. The intellectual Peres tends to fare better in the polls than the scrappy Shamir. In January, Peres' approval rating was 70%, Shamir's 49%. Although the Prime Minister was recently elected leader of the Herut Party, core of the Likud bloc, Smith says that a new poll due out in several weeks will show a decline in both Shamir's and Peres' popularity...
...week's end he finally acceded to a limited investigation. All the time Shamir continued to maintain that in this case, the rule of law must bow to Israel's security interests. "Who wants law without security?" the Foreign Minister demanded at a meeting of the right-wing Herut Party. "Only people without sense. The best thing we can do is to remove the affair from the agenda...
...personal power, Likudnik David Levy has been trying to sabotage the unity government. At last month's Herut party convention, which is the core of the Likud bloc, Levy formed an ad hoc alliance with Ariel Sharon to divert delegates' attention away from the agenda and undermine Shamir's leadership...
...Laborites also are attempting to tear apart the coalition. Party leaders pressured Peres to use the Herut convention crisis as a pretext to dismantle the unity government and hold early elections. They have even initiated negotiations with small party leaders to test out their chances for a coalition without Likud...
...influence completely waned: when Deputy Prime Minister David Levy considered challenging Yitzhak Shamir for the Herut Party nomination, Begin's son called Levy, presumably at his father's request, and urged him to withdraw. Levy did. The master politician may have given up his job, but not his touch...