Word: virshubski
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...greatest bank robbery ever," fumed Mordechai Virshubski, a member of Israel's Knesset. He and many of his countrymen were outraged at the news that Ernest Japhet, the former chairman of Bank Leumi (1985 assets: $22 billion), had negotiated for himself $5 million in severance pay and a $360,000 annual pension. Protesters stormed the bank's Tel Aviv headquarters. A prime reason for the anger was that Japhet had been forced to step down last year when a government commission criticized his role in the 1983 crash of the value of Israeli bank stocks. As public indignation mounted last...
...whether this one would be strong enough to deal with the urgent problems facing the country. Even Peres sounded only partly convincing when he noted guardedly, "It will be an interesting experiment." Some were openly skeptical. "It's not a government," declared Mordechai Virshubski of the small Shinui Party. "It's a constitutional catastrophe." Several of the small parties in the Knesset have agreed to support the coalition. But the far left and the far right oppose the plan, and Mapam, a tiny leftist party, has threatened to pull its six members out of the Labor alignment...
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