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...flights were canceled after Israeli officials confirmed newspaper reports / that a rescue mission was under way. Infuriated that premature publicity had compromised the airlift, the left-wing Citizens' Rights Movement and the right-wing Tehiya Party introduced no-confidence motions against the government in the Knesset. But Prime Minister Shimon Peres persuaded the parties to drop the motions by arguing that they would only bring more attention to the Falashas. "We Israelis manage to take a wonderful thing like this operation and create controversy all around it," said one Israeli immigration official in Jerusalem...
...meeting with Kahan took place in a conference room in the offices of Prime Minister Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 6. Time Inc. was represented by Haim Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice; Sharon was represented by Dov Weisglass, a Tel Aviv lawyer. At the outset of the examination, Zadok learned that he would not be permitted to see testimony gathered by the commission's investigators, who had the power to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify...
...government's pledge to support the bank- stock prices will cost it at least $2.5 billion, a figure that is almost as much as the $2.6 billion in aid the U.S. plans to give Israel this year. The cost of the crash is a heavy burden for Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who is trying to cut the Israeli budget as a way of fighting inflation and reviving the country's economy...
...tailspin (400% inflation then, more than 800% now), the Israelis delivered a mixed, and not very helpful, election verdict. Lacking a clear winner, the two rival blocs, Likud and Labor, set up an unusual arrangement in which the office of Prime Minister would change after 25 months. Shimon Peres, taking the first turn, adopted a clearly warmer tone than former Prime Minister Menachem Begin had toward...
...other circumstances, the letter might have been regarded as interference in another nation's internal affairs. The communication, which the State Department says was sent a few weeks ago by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, outlined specific steps that Washington thinks Israel should take to restructure its faltering economy. Shultz warned that unless drastic reforms are implemented, Israeli requests for U.S. aid could be in jeopardy. While the text of the document was not released, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv acknowledged last week that "it was a strong letter...