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...armorer. But she took comparatively little interest in domestic affairs and often failed to detect unrest at home. Oriental Jews in particular complained of their treatment as second-class citizens in Israel. When young Sephardic Jews organized themselves as "Black Panthers" three years ago and demonstrated in Jerusalem, Mrs. Meir was both amazed and outraged...
Playing Favorites. For most of her career as Premier, Mrs. Meir was the unquestioned leader of Israel. She ran the party and the country in stern maternal fashion. She made no excuses for playing favorites-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became one-or for bearing grudges. Gradually, however, the Labor Party began to lose strength. In the latest general elections, which had to be postponed to December because of the October war, Labor won-but with a reduced representation in the Knesset. Mrs. Meir was forced to bargain earnestly with Religious Party and Liberal Party leaders in order to form...
...Meir's coalition majority in the Knesset, as a result, was so slim (only 68 seats out of 129) that many Israelis freely predicted a new general election would soon have to be called. The test of her survival came in the shape of a commission that investigated Israel's lack of preparedness for the October war (TIME, April 15). Two weeks ago, the commission, chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shimon Agranat, issued a report sharply criticizing Israel's military leadership; Lieut. General David Elazar, the chief of staff, and five other high-ranking officers were...
...Likud last week successfully demanded a special session of the Knesset in order to present a no-confidence motion. Twice before, under similar attacks, Dayan had gone to Mrs. Meir and offered to resign. Both times she refused. Last week, when he made the same gesture, she was ominously noncommittal. Chatting with Mrs. Meir at a Labor meeting, Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi commented: "You realize that it won't end with Dayan. They're really aiming at you." Replied the Premier caustically: "You're telling...
Dayan, who until last week nurtured hopes of becoming Premier himself one day, refused to resign. That left Mrs. Meir with two choices: to beat back the Likud no-confidence vote or to resign herself. Realizing that she was likely to lose a Knesset vote, she opted to replace the debate on her government's performance with a speech of resignation. "I only regret," she told party leaders before her Knesset appearance, "that I have to bring down the government with me." She will head a caretaker government until a new Premier is installed or another election is called...