Word: knesset
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...Sunday in a remarkable rite of homage. As a motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a queue two kilometers long, filed quietly past to pay their last respects...
...after a scandal exploded over the discovery that he and his wife had held a foreign bank account in Washington, a violation of Israel's unusually strict currency laws. The Labor Party went on to defeat, and the right-wing Likud for the first time gained control of the Knesset...
...character of the Jewish state; a negotiated peace was the only solution. Hard-edged realism was not his only motivation for adopting this approach, however. He also suggested that he preferred it because it was more in keeping with his sense of humanity. In his inaugural speech to the Knesset in July 1992, he argued that it was antithetical to the democratic traditions of the Jews to subjugate another people. Moreover, he took the unusual step, at least by Israeli standards, of addressing the Palestinians directly, talking to them as human beings. "We have been fated to live together...
Throughout the 1980s, Kahane and Kach continually stirred up trouble, and Kahane's election to the Knesset halfway through the decade lent an air of legitimacy to his confrontational, violent tactics. After he had served one term, though, Israel passed legislation outlawing Kach in particular and making it extremely difficult for hate groups to sit in parliament...
...personal commitment: It's true that the last time I had a vote [on the Oslo accord] in the Knesset, I had a majority of one, 61 against 59. I said then and I said it publicly, As long as I have a majority of one, I will continue...