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Begin had previously said that he would quit in the event of a tie vote. For one thing, a resignation might strengthen his hand. If no one could form a government, Begin could call new elections, and some polls put his Likud coalition ahead of Labor...
Begin's startling push for annexation caught even his advisers by surprise. Fearing extensive public discussion, his ruling Likud party pushed the measure through the Israeli Knesset after just six hours of debate. The Prime Minister never bothered to explain why forcing the inhabitants of the Golan to abide by Israeli law was suddenly so critical, and instead he recalled past Syrian injustices to Israel. The timing was perfect; in addition to the Polish confrontation, Syrian troops are tied down as "peace-keepers" in Lebanon, and the United States and Egypt seem determined not to provoke an Israeli retreat from...
With that, the dispute was instantly transformed into a red-hot political issue-potentially the first threat to the coalition that Begin stitched together last month out of his conservative Likud bloc and three small religious parties. Since one of them is Agudat Israel, its support is crucial if the Begin coalition is to maintain its razor-thin, one-vote majority in the 120-member Knesset...
...boasted Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin as he lifted a glass of wine in celebration. What he had finally accomplished, after three weeks of effort, was the completion of a new coalition government, composed of 48 members of his Likud bloc and 13 members of three small religious parties. The new government thus had a bare majority of 61 in Israel's 120-member parliament. Begin naturally tried to put the best possible face on his government's prospects, claiming that the precariousness of its position would serve to strengthen discipline within the ruling coalition...
Begin's government won its first vote of confidence in the Knesset last week, but already the frictions were beginning to appear. Housing Minister David Levy, a popular figure in the Likud, said that he would refuse to join the new Cabinet...