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...broadcasting services issue constant-but censored-battle reports. A survey last week revealed that 98% of Israel's population listens to the news bulletins. In fact, national life almost came to a standstill last Wednesday as virtually all of Israel listened in while Premier Golda Meir addressed the Knesset...
...spirit of nose-thumbing defiance toward the U.N. or the Arab world, but by Labor Party fears about the outcome of next month's general election. Although Labor has ruled throughout Israel's 25-year history, it has never commanded an absolute majority in the 120-member Knesset (Parliament). The charismatic Dayan, who is somewhat more popular with the electorate at large than he is with other leaders of the Labor Party, had threatened, in effect, to sulk in his tent through the election if the plan was not adopted. If Dayan were to defect from Labor...
Bulut's conviction is the first decision stemming from an unusual new law, passed by the Israeli Knesset last year, that gives Israel jurisdiction to try according to Israeli law any person who commits an offense abroad that would be regarded as a crime against the state if done in Israel. Coupled with the established precedent that it is irrelevant how a defendant is brought before a court-a precedent reinforced in the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was kidnaped by Israeli agents in Argentina and tried in Israel-the new law appears to make Israel self-appointed...
...Israelis have long been known as one of the world's more fractious peoples. The Knesset is a turbulent forum for their divisions, as are their newspapers, despite official censorship of anything involving "state security." Moreover, Orthodox Jews, who represent about 25% of the population, are often pitted against their secular-minded countrymen in both matters of law and face-to-face encounters. Regardless of whether or not he is a believer, in matters of birth, marriage, death or divorce, an Israeli Jew is totally subject to the rulings of rabbinical courts. In the Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem...
...almost entirely made up of men and women, now in their 60s and 70s, who were born in Europe. Only two members of the present 19-man Cabinet, Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, are native-born Israelis, as are only 27 out of 120 members of the Knesset...