Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took Premier Golda Meir an entire month of bargaining to put together a Cabinet after last October's elections, in which her Labor party failed to win an absolute majority. But the time was obviously well spent. Last week she introduced to the Knesset (Parliament) the largest Cabinet in Israeli history. A coalition of five parties representing nearly 90% of the electorate, Golda's Cabinet was so large, in fact, that smaller chairs had to be used to accommodate the 24 ministers at the government table in the parliamentary chamber...
Reflecting the current mood in Israel, the new Cabinet was also the most militant in a decade. In a speech to the Knesset, Mrs. Meir reiterated her objections against Big Four peace plans ("There is no point in playing with formula and compromise suggestions"), endorsed the building of more Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and stressed that her government would settle for nothing less than a genuine peace accord in which the Arabs would accept Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state...
...Israel, voters choose parties rather than individual candidates for the 120 seats in the Knesset, or Parliament. The seats are then apportioned among the 16 contending parties according to percentages of the total vote. The results were about what had been expected. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Labor Party collected the largest number of seats. With a slow count still incomplete at week's end, the projection was 56 or possibly 57 seats. With five votes from two Arab parties aligned with Labor, she will have a majority of one or two-just below the three-vote margin...
...Minister Menahem Begin, is for outright annexation. Though she generally favors Allon, Mrs. Meir has publicly refused to commit herself to any of these approaches?until and unless negotiations with the Arabs begin. For the present, the occupation issue scarcely figures in electoral politics. Elections for seats in the Knesset will take place next month, and Mrs. Meir is practically certain of victory. But her successor may well be determined four years from now by a combination of personality and approach to the occupied territories...
...will say here, and the negotiators representing Israel will think, well, maybe not exactly this, maybe here, maybe there. They will bring it to the Cabinet, and the Cabinet will have to discuss it and take a position. The Cabinet will break up. We will go to the Knesset and have new elections. But why should...