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...Rabins' apparent candor and the small amount of money involved made the incident seem forgivable to the Israeli public. The feeling was that Rabin would escape with a substantial fine-but with his career intact...
...Rabins had not told the whole story. As Finance Ministry officials went over the bank records, they discovered a second account, containing nearly $6,000. In all, the Rabins had $18,700 in the two accounts when they left Washington, and they had transferred only some $10,500 back home. Israel's Attorney General Aharon Barak decided that the matter was serious enough to justify calling in the state prosecutor to investigate further. He also decided that Mrs. Rabin bears responsibility for the accounts; if found guilty in court, she could face up to three years in jail...
...question in every Israeli's mind was: Why did the Premier get involved in such tawdry troubles? There was no ready answer. Rabin, educated in a socialist home and trained in the spartan Israeli army, was hardly a playboy. Nonetheless, the Rabins live well by Israeli standards, and Mrs. Rabin has a taste for expensive knickknacks and U.S.-purchased dresses...
...shock wore off, Rabin won sympathy and applause from Israelis for giving up power. Said the English-language Jerusalem Post: "He has done a service to the nation by his act. It will help clarify the standards of rectitude that the nation expects from its public officials." Rabin, however, left his government in a constitutional and political mess. Technically, he could not resign; that is against Israeli law. When he called for elections last December, Rabin became head of a caretaker government; now he cannot abdicate that responsibility. Explained an Israeli legal expert: "Even if the government allowed Rabin...
Other problems complicated the Labor Party's choice of a successor. Only six weeks ago, Rabin won re-endorsement as head of the party by narrowly defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres by 41 out of nearly 3,000 votes. Party bylaws state that a replacement can be chosen only at another convention. In hectic days of negotiation after the bombshell, party chieftains decided that the 809-member central committee of the party could make the choice...