Word: tehiya
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...Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party was wavering in its support for the Likud...
...Prime Minister pulled off a few cunning maneuvers of his own. While his supporters attacked Peres in the Knesset debate, Begin unabashedly opened negotiations with the two members of the late Moshe Dayan's Telem Party to join his coalition, and offered similar talks with the three Tehiya deputies once the vote was concluded. Three of the five decided to abstain, thus robbing Peres of his victory...
Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...radically rightist Tehiya Party is made up of former Begin backers who broke away when Begin agreed to the Camp David accords, which included withdrawal from the Sinai and talks about granting autonomy to the Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tehiya, which will hold two or three seats, is led by Yuval Ne'eman, a world-renowned physicist who once was the head of military science for the army and the president of Tel Aviv University...