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...troubles came at him from all directions last week, there were serious doubts about how long the Begin government could continue to hold that last vote. The economic outlook was so gloomy that in the Knesset voting, Begin was deserted by two old allies, former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. In an unrelated and dangerous development, the occupied West Bank exploded in a round of angry demonstrations that left eleven Arab students, most of them teenagers, shot in the legs by Israeli soldiers...
...left and far right. During the noisy Knesset debate, Begin's handling of the economy came under attack again and again. "The government is like an unmanned space ship with no objective and no map," groused Gad Yaacobi, the Labor Party's chief economic spokesman. Weizman said he voted against his own party to pre serve the Camp David accords, since many Israelis were blaming their econom ic woes on the return of the Sinai oil fields to Egyptian sovereignty. Said...
...Begin's faltering government. This time the Prime Minister was at odds with his lawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a hero of the 1973 October War, who las made no secret of his desire to be Defense Minister. Begin has held that post since the resignation of Ezer Weizman last May, but he has only been able to devote a day or so each week to running Israel's complex defense establishment...
Begin's latest illness came at a time when the Prime Minister had seemed to be in unusually good health and spirits. The resignation of his Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, in late May had seemed to galvanize his determination to save his tottering government. Begin's speeches had thereafter been notable for their feisty and aggressive tone. "I feel terrific," he had been telling friends. Indeed, the night before the debate he had stayed up late at a bar mitzvah party for a friend...
...current inflation rate of 133%, a 500% increase in the cost of living since Begin came to power in 1977, a huge foreign debt and a soaring emigration rate. But then the Knesset defeated the opposition's call for elections by a vote of 60 to 54. Neither Weizman nor former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan supported the government; Weizman stayed away, after telling newsmen he was going fishing, and Dayan voted with the opposition...