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From its position stop a hill in western Jerusalem, the Israeli Knesset overlooks most of the new city. It is a rectangular stone building whose austere lines and sharp angles mold a basically classical exterior. Inside, the Israeli government meets to make decisions that will determine its country's future...
...Knesset combines the rough-hewn and informal with the grandiose. The legislative chamber, in which the 120 Knesset members most four days a week, contains simple beige swivel chairs arranged in concentric half-circles behind long curved desks. The ceiling is high and majestic, but the wall is carved in an abstract relief symbolizing peace; an incomplete circle represents the city of Jerusalem which was still split by barbed wire when this new seat of government was constructed...
From the start, Rabin had tried to widen his political base hi the Knesset. By the end of October, he was able to win over the National Religious Party -without compromising any of the principles of the government platform that the Religious Party had rejected last spring. This gave Rabin a somewhat more comfortable margin of eight seats in the Knesset and strengthened him enough to announce the stern measures of the economic "shock treatment" by which he hopes to resuscitate the Israeli economy (TIME, Nov. 25). Whether it also strengthened him sufficiently to be able to make any significant...
Premier Rabin, who has been in office since June, probably would have acted faster if he had not been handicapped by his dependence on splinter parties for his unstable, one-vote majority in the Knesset. Only in the past few weeks, after gaining the support of the right-wing National Religious Party, did he feel that he had sufficient support to move. His program was widely praised by the press, and according to a quick telephone poll by Tel Aviv's Dahaf Agency, 51% of the voters approved Rabin's measures-surprisingly high support considering the sacrifices involved...
...real meaning of the increase in prices is that we-all the citizens of Israel-have become poorer," Finance Minister Rabinowitz told the Knesset. "There is no one to compensate us for these cost increases, and the burden must inevitably fall upon...