Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour earlier, which were compiled from a meticulously conducted poll of voters as they left their polling stations. The immediate TV predictions: Labor would get 48 or 49 seats, Likud 47, and the other parties would divide up the remaining 24 or 25 seats in the 120-member Israeli Knesset...
Meanwhile, a broader debate raged over the wisdom of Israel's raid on the Iraqi reactor. At a committee meeting in the Knesset, Begin said that U.S. authorities had given him a document that supported his suspicions that Iraq was indeed planning to build a bomb. In fact, the document, although raising concerns about Iraq's ultimate intentions, stopped far short of what Begin claimed. Admitted a highly placed Israeli source: "The aim of the paper was to play down the possible danger of the reactor...
...might have obviated the need for it, Begin lashed out with a vengeance. Said he: "I hate, with a mortal hatred, the word 'treason.' But there is something of sabotage in the statements of Israel's Labor Party." Then Begin went on to approvingly quote a Knesset ally who said that Peres "had stuck a knife in the nation's back...
...election neared, it appeared that Begin's hard-line strategy of recent weeks was going down well in Israel. Polls last January showed his Likud coalition trailing far behind, with Labor in reach of obtaining an absolute majority in the Knesset. But in a poll taken just before the raid, Likud pulled ahead of Labor, 38% to 33%, and Menachem Begin appeared to be within reach of another four-year term. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman/Jerusalem and Louis Halasz at the United Nations, with other bureaus
Peres' letter was so vaguely worded for "security reasons," he claimed, should it fall into unfriendly hands?that Begin could send it to the Knesset with the charge that his rival opposed the reactor raid "in principle...