Word: rabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inside the car was a .22-cal. revolver and the body of a man who had shot himself in the head after scribbling a final message to his wife and children, asking them to "accept this act with understanding." The victim: Avraham Ofer, 55, Housing Minister in Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government and a longtime Labor Party official...
...death stunned Israel. Ofer had immigrated to Palestine as a boy, grown up in a kibbutz and fought in Israel's war for independence; he was one of the second-generation "sons of the founders," who, Rabin promised when he became Premier 32 months ago, would give the country new direction. In a sense, Ofer's suicide was a kind of political verdict on that generation, especially since it followed rumors that he was under investigation for possible embezzlement and other charges. Although there was no firm evidence that the accusations were true, they added to the aura...
...reckoning the G.N.P. grew by 2.8% last year. And the unemployment rate, which in the past hardly ever rose above 3%, is creeping up toward 5%. Small wonder that the economy is a central issue in this spring's special elections forced by the resignation of Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME...
...raises from management. Last week in the Knesset (parliament), the right-wing opposition party, Likud, pushed into committee four bills requiring arbitration in labor disputes involving various public service workers. The Histadrut set off a thunderous cry, and the bills are expected to die in the committee, which Rabin's Laborites control...
...though the deficit has dwindled, the inflation has not-and the government seems inclined to trust to a sense of national purpose rather than tough immediate measures to bring it down. Says Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin's chief rival in the upcoming elections: "Vision is worth more than economic study, and the dreamer gets better results than the best professor of economics." One such economist, Tel Aviv University President Haim Ben-Shahar, feels that only a decisive leadership, the kind that would be brave enough to stand up to political pressure groups and cut defense spending, can assure...