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...Begin government had survived seemingly more daunting challenges, including the resignations of its two most prominent personalities, Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister in 1979 and Ezer Weizman as Defense Minister last spring. When Begin last November survived by a mere three votes a no-confidence motion in the Knesset on his handling of the economy, it was an indication to many that time was running...
...rowing popular dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government would seem to present the opposition Labor Party with a golden opportunity. Polls show that Labor would win an absolute majority of seats in the Knesset if elections were held today. Nonetheless, there is a possibility that the party, which ruled Israel from 1948 to 1977, may throw away its big chance to return to power. Reason: it is bogged down in a vindictive leadership battle that Israelis refer to simply as "the struggle...
...high case of government corruption in a country that takes pride in its standards of integrity in public office. As a prelude to a formal indictment, Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir last week asked Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to lift the parliamentary immunity of Aharon Abuhatzeira, 42, the Minister of Religious Affairs. That will clear the way for Zamir to press bribery charges against Abuhatzeira; if convicted, he could be sentenced to seven years in prison...
...Abuhatzeira affair is a major embarrassment to the battered government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which last month narrowly survived a motion of no confidence. The accused Minister belongs to the National Religious Party, whose twelve Knesset votes are essential to the survival of Begin's coalition. The charges against Abuhatzeira have renewed tensions between the country's politically and culturally dominant Ashkenazi Jews, of European background, and the Sephardic Jews, from the Middle East, the Balkans and North Africa. Abuhatzeira is from the Sephardic community, which sometimes feels it is a second-class society within Israel. Wrote...
Although the West Bank unrest did not figure directly in the Knesset debate, it too reflected on Begin, if only because he has doubled as Defense Minister since Weizman resigned last May. Israeli authorities have been increasingly tough in exercising control over the area's 700,000 Arabs. Since July, all three of the univer sities have been subject to military super vision. The tensions on the West Bank reached a break point after Israeli author ities shut down Bir Zeit University to prevent it from holding "Palestinian Week" activities. In El Bireh, a small town near by, about...