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RECOVERING. Menachem Begin, 71, former Prime Minister of Israel who resigned last September for reasons that to this day he has not fully explained; after a 90-min. operation to remove his prostate; at Shaare Zedek Hospital; in Jerusalem. Begin is reported to be in good condition...
...limbs were being blown off, and Reagan was the only man on earth who could stop it. The President listened intently, telling Deaver that he too had been agonizing about it. Then Reagan summoned Secretary of State George Shultz and put in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. While Shultz and Deaver listened approvingly, Reagan demanded that the bombing be discontinued. Within 20 minutes Begin returned the call to say it had stopped...
Kahane's election (with 1.2% of the national vote) set off widespread indignation. In a rare public comment, former Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared, "My friends and I have nothing in common with the man." An aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that Kahane was "not acceptable under any circumstances" in a Likud-led government. While Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek called for a law that would make the espousal of racist views illegal, Israel's state-owned radio kept Kahane's more inflammatory statements...
...campaigner and, in the long run more worrisome, the party's continuing inability to appeal to the Sephardic Jewish immigrants from North Africa. Labor's failure to do better was all the more glaring because Peres' opponent was not, as in 1977 and 1981, the impassioned Menachem Begin but the untried and colorless Shamir. The outcome confirmed that the Sephardim, who now constitute a majority of Israel's population, have become a potent political force. Many of them hold a grudge against Labor for supposedly neglecting their needs during the 1950s and 1960s...
...together with Ronald Reagan, but Shamir did not pursue either one. The Prime Minister is still pushing to swap 120 Palestinian guerrillas for three Israeli soldiers held by a wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. What he would most welcome is a last-minute campaign appearance by his predecessor, Menachem Begin, who remains a virtual recluse in his Jerusalem apartment. Likud officials estimate that a TV or radio address by Begin would be worth between two and five extra seats...