Word: shamir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate within the Knesset assumed the proportions of melodrama. Would one member return in time from Argentina? Would former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who had not been seen in public since he resigned last September, show up to cast the deciding ballot and thus bail out his successor, Yitzhak Shamir? In the end, it did not matter: the Knesset approved the opposition Labor Party's call for early elections, 61 to 58. Though the bill must survive three more votes, the balloting last week all but guaranteed that voters will go to the polls between late May and November...
...called for early elections. The sudden about-face was partly attributed in some quarters to pressure from Nissim Gaon, a Swiss-Jewish multimillionaire and Tami benefactor. After Nigeria failed to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars for a chain of luxury hotels he was building, Gaon reportedly asked Shamir's government to allow Israeli banks in Switzerland to give him loan guarantees. When Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad refused, Gaon urged Tami Leader Aharon Abuhatzeira to call for new elections. Gaon, who co-founded the Tami Party in 1981, vigorously denied any interference...
Zeigerman arrived in time to cast his ballot with the Likud, but Begin never emerged. As it turned out, his presence would not have helped: another Likud member defected and gave Labor its majority. Recent polls indicate that Labor, headed by Shimon Peres, would handily defeat Shamir's Likud bloc if voting were held now. When the election date is finally set, the campaign promises to be as fierce as any Israel has seen...
President Reagan has tried hard to get the aid to Jordan approved. When Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was in Washington last November, Reagan asked him not to oppose the deal. The President last week told a Washington gathering of the United Jewish Appeal that it is in America's interest as well as Israel's to "help meet Jordan's legitimate needs for defense against the growing power of Syria and Iran." Publicly, Administration officials down-played the significance of Hussein's remarks; privately, they resented the King's timing and felt it would...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, unlike his predecessor Menachem Begin, is eager to demonstrate evenhandedness in opposing both Jewish and Arab terrorism. There is good reason to do so. In the past four years, fanatical Jewish activists have launched more than 40 terrorist operations against Arab and Christian homes and institutions in Israel and the West Bank. Among the more spectacular crimes: the attempted assassination of three West Bank Arab mayors in June 1980 and an assault last summer on Hebron's Islamic University in which three Arabs were killed and 33 wounded. Responsibility for the latest West Bank machine...