Word: herut
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...wall behind the stage in the Tel Aviv theater was decorated with huge Israeli flags, framing pictures of two Zionist heroes, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Theodor Herzl. Oddly, there was no photograph of Menachem Begin. Nor was the Prime Minister present as 950 members of the Herut Party gathered last week to elect his successor in a boisterous, eight-hour-long session. If the attention of an anxious nation had been riveted on Begin while he debated whether to resign, Israelis seemed determined, once that decision was made, to move into the new and uncertain post-Begin era without looking back...
...always, Begin dominates his Herut Party, the major component of the ruling Likud coalition. During the Lebanese war, he never called a meeting to explain his policies, a failing that would have been unacceptable, and indeed unthinkable, in the larger and more democratic Labor Party. Begin ran his Cabinet in similar style during the week of discussion about the Reagan proposal. Asked to describe the Prime Minister's relationship to his Cabinet, a Begin supporter tersely replies: "Snow White and the seven dwarfs. They all owe their political lives to Begin. On the issues that count, the Cabinet reflects...
...Likud coalition, built around Begin's Herut Party and its Liberal allies, is in most ways the polar opposite of Labor. Likud is more sympathetic to Orthodox Jewish strictures in Israeli law; Labor is not. Likud subscribes to laissez-faire economics; Labor has built Israel's welfare state. Labor's supporters include unionists, kibbutzniks, professionals, the Likud's entrepreneurs and nationalists...
...move over to Defense. The hawkish Shamir, 64, a Polish emigrant like Begin, was Speaker of the Knesset before replacing Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister two months ago. To replace Shamir, Begin tapped Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, 55, a leader of the Liberal Party, which together with Herut forms the backbone of the Likud governing coalition. Both men abstained on the Knesset vote ratifying the Camp David accords...
...qualified." At the same time, Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a former general and the leading hard-line proponent of Israel's incendiary settlements policy in the West Bank, threatened to resign if he did not get the Defense Ministry himself. Begin explained to Sharon, a fellow Herut Party member, that he personally preferred him, but the opposition from the other parties ruled out his appointment...