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Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was lounging beside the pool of his government hideaway near Tel Aviv one morning last week when he received an urgent call from his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin had called a special Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Its purpose: to head off a crisis that was threatening to disrupt Jimmy Carter's plan for a meeting at Camp David between Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early September...
...Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon was allowed to proceed with work on some new settlements on the West Bank against his own orders. Begin agreed to stop the work, but later grumbled to some aides that the many warriors in his Cabinet (Weizman, Sharon, Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin are all decorated generals) "do not know how to take orders-only how to give them...
...Israel bring itself to surrender territory that could be used to launch a new war against it? Even so moderate and rational a man as Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, leader of the D.M.C. and Deputy Premier, says no. "When we come to an issue like the West Bank," he argues, "Israel's dilemma is whether to yield to U.S. pressure or jeopardize its very existence. When the country is faced with such a dilemma, Israel will not yield, come what may." Says David Glass of the National Religious Party: "You can't push Israel too hard. When we begin to feel...
...helped make Sadat's peace initiative possible. A close Begin aide confides: "The Premier believes that Jewish history [in Israeli stopped in 1963 when Ben-Gurion retired and only started again this year with his election to the premiership." With the backing of the 15 Deputies from Yigael Yadin's Democratic Movement for Change, who joined the government in October, Begin's ruling coalition now commands a healthy 78 votes in the 120-seat Knesset. Moreover, Begin is autocratic in running his government. He has banned smoking at Cabinet meetings, and Lord help the luckless minister...
...Sadat, starting at a working lunch Sunday a few hours before the Egyptian President spoke to the Knesset. The location was the King David Hotel. Sadat, who customarily eats a late breakfast and skips lunch, sipped juice and coffee while the five other participants-Begin, Dayan, Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, Sadat Aide Hassan Kamel and Egyptian Socialist Liberal Party Leader Mustafa Kamel Murad-ate heartily. Once pleasantries were over, Dayan was the first to talk about substance: "Let's hear what you expect from...