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...Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Michael P. Harris, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, JoAnn Lum, Valerie J. Marchant, Naushad S. Mehta, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Barry Rehfeld, Andrea Sachs, David E. Thigpen, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young
...spite of the vote to cut the budget, Cabinet officials must determine where the $1 billion in savings will come from. Although each minister is expected to recommend trims in his own department, some officials contend that fiscal realities leave them little flexibility. Education Minister Yitzhak Navon, for example, faces a 12½% budget cut and may have to scrap benefits like free high school education...
What concerns many Israelis is that some Orthodox Jews want to regulate daily life according to Halakhah, or religious law. Coed swimming would be outlawed, only kosher food would be served, television and radio programs would be banned from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. For former President Yitzhak Navon, 63, the dilemma cuts to the very heart of what Israel should be. "Are we going to live according to the laws of Moses or to the laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will...
...member Knesset; three are in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's 19-man Cabinet. Chief of Staff Moshe Levy is a Sephardic Jew, as is Israel Kesar, secretary-general of the 1.1 million-member General Federation of Labor. The second in command of both major political parties, Yitzhak Navon of Labor and David Levy of Likud, are Sephardim of Moroccan descent...
Although the presidency is a largely ceremonial and nonpartisan post, the results meant that seven members of Begin's coalition had defected, delivering the Prime Minister an embarrassing defeat. It echoed the humiliation Begin suffered in 1978 when Labor also won the presidency with the popular Yitzhak Navon. Earlier this year, Navon decided not to seek another five-year term. Instead, he may become a contender for leadership of the Labor Party, which means he could be Begin's opponent in the next election...