Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Likud coalition has come under fire from within its own ranks as a result of its economic policies. Tami, a three-member coalition partner, has threatened to bolt the government if bud get cuts drastically affect the poor. Another Likud member successfully introduced a motion in the Knesset demanding a de bate on whether new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be fro zen because they are too costly...
Responding to the worsening econo my, the opposition Labor alignment pre sented a no-confidence motion, which is due to be voted on in the Knesset this week...
Under the intense and volatile Begin, Shamir had kept a prudently low profile, first as Speaker of the Knesset and then as Foreign Minister. He watched Begin chew up such outspoken potential challengers as Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman. Says an "aide who has worked closely with Shamir for four years: "His calculation was the right...
...practical reality that the words are meant to address. An uninspired and an uninspiring speaker, Shamir is also less divisive than Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before Israel's independence and a covert agent and high official of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. (Even his surname had been a deception; born Jazernicki, he chose the new identity after escaping from...
...presented his Cabinet to the Knesset, Shamir pledged to continue his predecessor's policies. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres immediately went on the offensive. What would continue, he said, would be the "twofold tragedy" of the Begin government: economic disaster and the war in Lebanon...