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Accustomed though they are to high-voltage political shocks, Israelis must have found last week unusually electrifying. Premier Menachem Begin's coalition lost a crucial vote in the Knesset, thereby threatening a defection that could reduce his government's majority to two. Faced with protests by fanatic nationalists over the court-ordered evacuation of a Jewish settlement at Elon Moreh, the Cabinet unanimously voted to forge ahead with new settlements in the West Bank. But the most powerful jolt of the week was a Cabinet decision approving the deportation of the Palestinian mayor of the West Bank city...
...same day, the government removed the subsidies for cooking oil and other household products, and prices for those items jumped by 50%. During a stormy session of the Knesset, where the ruling Likud coalition now has a majority of only six seats, Begin survived a series of no-confidence motions. But observers were predicting that it was only a matter of time before the beleaguered Premier would be obliged to call new elections...
...Coolidge Hall 413, Arie Lova Eliav, a veteran of the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) and a leader of his country's peace movement, sits at a small desk, reading, writing and getting ready to teach...
...Eliav's enjoying his break. "Politicians everywhere should take a sabbatical, just the way people from academia do," Eliav, who resigned his Knesset seat to come to the Center for International Affairs, says. "Professors need a year every seven to recharge their intellectual batteries. That is even more true of politicians, who can become more locked in, more parochial and self-centered...
...government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former adviser on Arab affairs, Shmuel Toledano: "The law is on the side of the government, and justice on the side of the Bedouin...