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...hospital after a severe heart attack, and Yigael Yadin, head of the upstart Democratic Movement for Change, is fighting libel charges. Even so, Labor Stalwart Abba Eban confessed to doubts that the party "can still turn the wheel and gain momentum." If not, the sad end of Yitzhak Rabin could be followed by the demise of the Labor government he has suddenly ceased to lead...
With the downfall of Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of Shimon Peres as leader of the Labor Party, Israeli citizens have been deprived of their favorite blood sport: the ferocious, nonstop struggle for power and prestige between their Premier and their Defense Minister. For the past three years virtually every Israeli domestic, foreign and military policy issue has engaged the two contestants in loud public attacks and counterattacks, which occasionally subside into sotto voce snarling and low-key muttering...
...dispute between the two men has often been more a matter of style than substance. Dour and woefully inarticulate, Rabin has frequently been outshone by Peres, 53, an elegant, personable and cultivated man of the world, whose eloquence is legendary in Israel. Though sometimes dismissed by U.S. diplomats as a lightweight, Peres is in fact a hardheaded, pragmatic and dedicated statesman. Not even his worst enemies would begrudge him credit for his critical contribution to Israel's formidable defense establishment...
...then Premier Levi Eshkol. Not until 1968 was Peres' faction reintegrated into the Labor Party. Subsequently Peres began broadening his expertise. He held such diverse jobs as Minister for Economic Development of Occupied Territories, Immigration, Transport and Communications and Information. When he lost a close race to Rabin for the premiership in 1974, Peres accepted the post of Defense Minister in his rival's Cabinet...
...enemies and allies. He favors a step-by-step approach to peace in the Middle East. If elected Premier, he is expected to go along with President Carter's proposal to reconvene the Geneva talks this year. He would certainly be more ingenious and inventive than the stolid Rabin. Like Rabin, however, he will be intransigent on questions dealing with the Palestine Liberation Organization. To a suggestion that the P.L.O. be granted recognition by Israel, Peres replied: "Stroking a tiger will not make it a pussycat...