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...most Israelis it was a week of unrelieved bad news. The inflation rate rose to a peak of 133%. The coalition government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened to fall apart again over disputed cuts in defense spending. Angry squatters completed a tent settlement in Jerusalem to protest the housing shortage. Most disturbing of all, however, was a revelation in a parliamentary debate: more citizens are leaving Israel than at any time since the country was founded 32 years ago, on the very principle of the Jews' return to the land of Zion...
...economic grants to Israel until Jerusalem imposed a moratorium on new settlements. The measure was defeated 85 to 7. A day before, Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, the Washington Democrat who has long been one of Israel's best friends in Congress, told the Washington Star that Prime Minister Menachem Begin had lost some American support by "taking an intransigent position" on the settlements...
After a troubling hiatus of suspended peace talks and intensified violence in the occupied West Bank, Israel and Egypt last week began to inch back to the bargaining table. In quick succession, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin both accepted Jimmy Carter's invitation to send their top negotiators to Washington in early July. There was little cause for celebration; everyone knew that formidable differences remain on the issue of Palestinian autonomy and that no major concessions are likely to be made by either side before the U.S. election. Moreover...
...September 1978. In the past two months the bloodshed has intensified. Jewish settlers on the West Bank, who constitute about 2% of the population of the region (excluding East Jerusalem), have stepped up their demands for the support of the Israeli authorities, and the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin has been eager to oblige. When extremist followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, founder of the Greater Israel Movement, illegally attempted to re-establish a Jewish presence in the Arab city of Hebron after an absence of more than 40 years, Begin allowed them to remain. In January, after a Jewish...
...pulse rate is 72, his blood pressure is 140/95, his vision is normal, and his doctors last week pronounced him in excellent condition. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 66, who suffered a stroke last year and a massive heart attack three years ago, is embroiled in domestic political troubles and immersed in a crisis with the Palestinians. But he seems to thrive on this diet of adversity. As feisty and autocratic as ever, Begin talked about his multiple problems last week with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer in an hour-long interview. Excerpts...