Word: shimon
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...fared better. According to the same poll, the Prime Minister's support declined from 54% in August to 42.9% in September, but then increased to 44.8% in October. His closest rival is President Yitzhak Navon, with 18.4%, followed by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with 11.1%. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres is a distant fourth, with only 3.3%. Reason: the Sephardic Jews who support Begin approve of his hard line toward the Arabs, massacre or no massacre, and the Sephardim now make up more than half of the Israeli population. -By William E. Smith. Reported by David Halevy/Jerusalem and Johanna...
...door session of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Begin bristled at an opposition demand that he resign. Shouted the embattled Prune Minister: "Who should resign? I, with 50% of public opinion thinking I am the best man for the job, or [Opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon] Peres, who has the trust of a full...
...whether to conduct an official inquiry, the Defense Minister hinted that when the opposition Labor Party was in power in 1976 Israeli officers took part in a massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christians at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp near Beirut. Sharon clearly was sniping at Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who was then Defense Minister, and not at the army, but I.D.F. officers familiar with the matter issued angry denials...
...approached Sharon, no one spoke to him. Sharon sat impassively as Opposition Leader Shimon Peres bitterly attacked the government (see box), addressing many of his remarks directly to Begin and Sharon...
Speaking in the Knesset, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres eloquently described the emotional crisis that the massacre had caused. Excerpts...