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...wage increase?" Finally, after a Cabinet meeting devoted almost entirely to the issue, Begin agreed to meet a delegation of hunger strikers. When the Communists brought a motion of no confidence against the government, the issue sparked one of the most inflamed debates in the history of the Knesset. Health Minister Eliezer Shostak called Labor Opposition Backbencher Yossi Sarid "a loathsome abomination"; Sarid replied, "You are execrably revolting." After a recess, secret negotiations between the strikers and government ministers resumed. At week's end the government seemed to be surrendering to the doctors' demands, while trying to dissuade...
DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio...
...Defense Minister (and now Minister Without Portfolio) Ariel Sharon, who is said to have told the Cabinet, "I'm not prepared to wear the mark of Cain or have people wave 'murderer' placards at me. I'm not prepared to take all the blame." The Knesset voted against setting up another commission of inquiry, but the protests continued...
That brazen daylight attack on Israeli forces last week underscored the urgency behind Prime Minister Menachem Begin's pledge to the Knesset, delivered three days later, "to bring our sons home from Lebanon." It also drove home a harder truth to the Israeli public: one year after the Israeli invasion that was launched with the intention of transforming Lebanon into a friendly neighbor whose soil would never again be used as a base for attacks against Israel, Israeli forces in Lebanon have become bogged down in an increasingly violent war of nerves. Three days after the Chouf ambush...
...week's formal events went largely as expected. The Lebanese Cabinet and Parliament approved the withdrawal agreement unanimously. The Israeli Knesset also approved it, by a vote of 57 to 6, with 44 members of the opposition Labor Party abstaining as a gesture of protest against the way in which the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin had conducted...