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...turning point came at Ezer Weizman's home last Wednesday morning, when the former Defense Minister told Shimon Peres, leader of the Labor Party, that he would join a Labor-led government. Peres was jubilant. For more than two weeks he had been trying to scrape together a coalition government to succeed that of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his Likud bloc. Starting with the 44 Knesset seats his party had won in July's national elections, Peres also enjoyed the allegiance of two small parties, bringing the total to 50. But he still remained...
...will now control 35 seats in the Knesset. But as Herzog consulted with many of these 13 groups, it became clear that some former Likud supporters were reluctant to commit themselves to a new Shamir government. Among the notable holdouts was the National Religious Party. Former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who leads Yahad, a new party with three seats, is thought to be leaning toward Labor. He told a television audience that "what has happened in the past seven years with respect to the peace process and the economy provides ample reason for criticizing the Likud...
...country's small parties, which tend to have a religious or ideological basis. They picked up a total of 35 seats, ten more than in 1981. Tehiya, a rightist offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going to make an issue of throwing...
...mathematical realities thus forced Peres and Shamir to focus their attention on three parties: Weizman's three-seat Yahad; the National Religious Party, a mainstream Orthodox group whose four members devoutly believe that the West Bank belongs to Israel; and the Sephardic Torah Guardians, a rigidly Orthodox organization that won four seats...
...taxes and import duties on foreign items like autos and color TVs. The Begin government then tried to ease the pain of inflation by broadening indexation and encouraging spending. Losing confidence in the shekel, Israelis increasingly turned to the American greenback. "Our national currency is now the dollar," Ezer Weizman, Begin's former Defense Minister, who is now heading his own ticket, charged last week. "This is a disgrace...