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...last week's Cabinet session, the Premier, who has twice been hospitalized for a heart condition, conceded that "a month ago, I was very ill and could hardly function." He was as feisty as ever, though, at a stormy, seven-hour Knesset debate on foreign policy. The Premier's Likud-dominated coalition handily turned back a no-confidence motion introduced by the Labor Party by a vote of 70 to 35. But Israel's internal debate over its response to the Egyptian peace initiative continued. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy interviewed Foreign Minister...
...April, the government introduced legislation that would automatically exempt women from the army if they declared they had religious objections. The move encountered stiff opposition in the Knesset from the Labor and Shelli parties and from one of Likud's key coalition partners, the Democratic Movement for Change. At the same time, Agudat Israel threatened to quit Begin's coalition if the bill did not pass...
...Begin's reluctance to commit himself to yielding Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank was increasingly viewed as untenable and unrealistic, even by members of his Cabinet. The bitter mood building against the Premier was underscored last week by a member of the Knesset from Begin's Likud coalition. "Labor managed to wreck Israel in 29 years of government," he said. "We [the Likud] managed to do it in only...
...position. His uncle Chaim Weizmann was Israel's first President (young Ezer dropped the second n in his last name in an early assertion of his independence). His wife Re'uma is the sister of Foreign Minister Dayan's first wife. And in Israel's Likud coalition government, he stands as something of a kingmaker: it was Weizman, the second ranking member in Begin's Herut Party, who ran the campaign that gave Begin his upset victory in last May's elections...
...Israeli side, the Tel Aviv attack and the assault into south Lebanon have once again stirred both anger and militant pride in the Israelis, quieting critics of the government's grudging handling of the peace negotiations and strengthening the positions of Begin and his hardline Likud coalition colleagues. One result: the prognosis for the talks between Begin and Carter in Washington, never promising, seemed even more bleak...