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...Abraham Yehoshua--Harvard hall...
Little Choice. Rabin had little choice in resigning, since he was already under police investigation for violation of Israel's foreign currency laws. His stepping down, said a grim Rabin, was a "sad end" to a three-year political stewardship. Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz had another phrase for it: "the biggest political crisis in the history of the state of Israel...
Unemployment is a special bugaboo for the Israeli government. An Israeli out of work might leave the country-depriving it of a soldier-or, perhaps worse, might vote against the party in power. As Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz says, "While other countries fight inflation with planned unemployment, we have steered clear of that course because we know that large-scale unemployment here would be social dynamite...
...Finance Minister does not wear a glorious crown," says Yehoshua Rabinowitz. "He is not the country's most popular fellow. If I have to step on a few toes...
...Israelis also scored with an economic accord signed in Washington last week by Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz. Unlike the EEC pact, it touches only lightly on trade matters, but provides for joint financing of a $20 million desalination plant, the supply of raw materials by the U.S. and, most important, the encouragement of private U.S. investment in Israel-which was down 50% in the recession year...