Word: knesset
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Bickering Factions. The present caretaker government is a fragile coalition of Labor with the largely conservative National Religious Party, the Independent Liberal Party and Israeli Arab members of the Knesset. The alliance gave Mrs. Meir only a slim majority: 68 seats in a Parliament of 120 members. Bickering among the factions was one reason her government finally caved in. Rabin will have to use all of his generalship and his diplomatic persuasion to retain the ten Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have...
...Meir's coalition majority in the Knesset, as a result, was so slim (only 68 seats out of 129) that many Israelis freely predicted a new general election would soon have to be called. The test of her survival came in the shape of a commission that investigated Israel's lack of preparedness for the October war (TIME, April 15). Two weeks ago, the commission, chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimon Agranat, issued a report sharply criticizing Israel's military leadership; Lieut. General David Elazar, the chief of staff, and five other high-ranking officers were...
...Likud last week successfully demanded a special session of the Knesset in order to present a no-confidence motion. Twice before, under similar attacks, Dayan had gone to Mrs. Meir and offered to resign. Both times she refused. Last week, when he made the same gesture, she was ominously noncommittal. Chatting with Mrs. Meir at a Labor meeting, Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi commented: "You realize that it won't end with Dayan. They're really aiming at you." Replied the Premier caustically: "You're telling...
Dayan, who until last week nurtured hopes of becoming Premier himself one day, refused to resign. That left Mrs. Meir with two choices: to beat back the Likud no-confidence vote or to resign herself. Realizing that she was likely to lose a Knesset vote, she opted to replace the debate on her government's performance with a speech of resignation. "I only regret," she told party leaders before her Knesset appearance, "that I have to bring down the government with me." She will head a caretaker government until a new Premier is installed or another election is called...
Premier Golda Meir, in her speech of resignation to the Knesset, warned the government of Lebanon that "we regard it and its people who collaborated with the terrorists as responsible for these murders." After Israel's retaliatory raids...