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...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...
What Happens Now? "I did not start all this," Rabin insisted. "I did not want to dissolve the Knesset and call early elections. General elections are not some kind of sports event; you don't play around with them." The Premier accused the Religious Party ministers of not adhering to "the basic principle of collective Cabinet responsibility, which is fundamental to our constitutional law. They had undermined my ability to maintain a coalition and a working Cabinet. Now that the action has been taken, I am at peace with myself. What happens now?" Rabin asked rhetorically...
Israelis were divided in their opinions as to whether Rabin's move was clever tactics or inept strategy. An intense, introspective man, Rabin has been increasingly unhappy about the smallness of his majority in the Knesset. After nearly three years in office, he is also weary of constant criticism from his fellow Israelis-both in and out of the government. During his tenure, Israel's inflation has risen to a rate of 37%, unemployment is approaching 5% and money is tight. While Assad and Sadat have captured world headlines with talk of a peace offensive, Rabin has been...
President Ephraim Katzir will almost certainly ask Rabin to continue as head of a caretaker government, but as former Foreign Minister Abba Eban observed: "He can explore and discuss but he cannot make any commitments." Thus the Israelis will not be ready to talk peace until at least May, when the elections will probably take place. Before that, beginning in February, there will be heated local elections for delegates to party conventions; after this comes the selection of party candidates to run for general election. Under Israeli law, voters choose party slates instead of individual candidates. The parties then divide...