Word: shamir
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Kahane's election (with 1.2% of the national vote) set off widespread indignation. In a rare public comment, former Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared, "My friends and I have nothing in common with the man." An aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that Kahane was "not acceptable under any circumstances" in a Likud-led government. While Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek called for a law that would make the espousal of racist views illegal, Israel's state-owned radio kept Kahane's more inflammatory statements...
...peace" conference as important in its way for the future of Israel as any that had gone before. Seated at opposite sides of a table decorated with bouquets of daisies at Jerusalem's King David Hotel last week were Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the head of the Likud Party, and his political rival, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. The two men smiled, shook hands and joked with each other. But the outward congeniality belied the serious political deadlock that had brought them together. Nine days before, they had battled to a virtual draw in parliamentary elections. With neither party...
...than Labor in patching together a coalition from the small religious and splinter parties that will now control 35 seats in the Knesset. But as Herzog consulted with many of these 13 groups, it became clear that some former Likud supporters were reluctant to commit themselves to a new Shamir government. Among the notable holdouts was the National Religious Party. Former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who leads Yahad, a new party with three seats, is thought to be leaning toward Labor. He told a television audience that "what has happened in the past seven years with respect to the peace...
...Shamir and Peres had opened their negotiations at Herzog's urging. Said the President: "People from all strata of the public are appealing to me to initiate a national unity government." After both leaders had conferred separately with the President at his official presidential residence in Jerusalem, Shamir and Peres spoke positively about the need to join forces. Peres said he felt that "the entire nation wants a national unity government established, and it is our judgment to respond to the will of the people." Shamir said he recognized the "special need" for such a move. However, many political...
After Peres had been tapped by Herzog, he promised to form "a government as wide as possible, a unified government." Still, he could abandon efforts to negotiate with Shamir and seek to scrape together a parliamentary majority of his own. The two major parties remain deeply divided on a host of issues, from Lebanon to settlement policy in the West Bank. But there are pressing troubles that cannot wait until the tangled election results are finally sorted out. The Bank of Israel announced last week that during July the government had been forced to pump an unprecedented $360 million into...