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...Until now, Premier Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition has had a bare majority-63 seats in the 120-member Knesset; with the addition of D.M.C.'s 15 seats, it will have a far more comfortable 78-seat majority. In return, the D.M.C.'s leader, Yigael Yadin, 60, former general and world-renowned archaeologist, will become Deputy Premier, and his party will get an additional three of the government's 17 Cabinet posts...
...negotiations with Begin before entering the government, Yadin and his party failed to win any concessions. Nevertheless, inclusion of the D.M.C. in the coalition may have a moderating effect on the government. A nonideological grouping of former Laborites and other political outcasts, the D.M.C. is by no means dovish. But it is pragmatic, and in coming into the government, the D.M.C. has reserved the right to take independent positions on matters involving the West Bank; it may demand debates on the issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. A D.M.C. presence in the government will also dilute the influence...
...D.M.C. decide to join the government at this time and not earlier? Yadin, after the D.M.C. membership council voted in Jerusalem to join the coalition, predicted an "approaching emergency" in relations between Israel and the U.S. Said he: "I hope I'll be proven wrong, but we're now facing the toughest test we've faced since 1948. We must help the government change the economy and solve social problems-or else we won't survive." Cynics detected another possible motive: Yadin, as Deputy Premier, will now be in a better position to succeed Begin should...
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan was one. So were his Cabinet colleagues, Ezer Weizman and Ariel Sharon. So were former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his Foreign Minister Yigal Allon. D.M.C. Leader Yigael Yadin held the rank, as did United Nations Ambassador Chaim Herzog, Tel Aviv Mayor Shlomo Lahat and Israel's Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren...
...fears of a military putsch whenever things went badly. Israelis insist that this danger is nonexistent. For one thing, the army can scarcely be considered a threatening elite in a nation where almost every male-and many a female as well-has been a part of it. As Yigael Yadin once said when he was chief of staff, Israeli citizens are really soldiers on eleven months' leave. Israel, moreover, has carefully tried to avoid glamorizing the military; only in recent years, for example, have medals been awarded-and then sparingly. But credit is also due in large part...