Word: yigal
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Begin was caught in a collision between two headstrong members of his government. On one side was Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, a tough administrator who has repeatedly threatened to resign and now stood adamantly opposed to any concession to the teachers. He argued that the proposed pay hikes would cost the government $2 billion over a period of 16 months and aggravate Israel's colossal annual inflation rate. That rate now stands at 140%, the highest in the world...
...government, some 8,000 members of Histadrut, the large labor federation, demonstrated outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. Said Yeruham Meshel, the organization's secretary-general: "This government is indifferent to the public's mood." Other critics demanded the resignation of Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, often called Yigal the Printer for his willingness to issue new currency to keep up with inflation. Seeing the Begin government thrown on the defensive, the opposition decided to strike...
Energies thwarted in Israel often come bursting forth in the U.S. Yigal Mizrahi, 27, a former cabaret owner in Tel Aviv who went to New York in 1975, has opened an Israeli nightclub in New York called Peacock's Piano Bar. Customers dance the hora on its oversize dance floor, "I miss Israel," Mizrahi says. "That's why I started this club. I wanted to give Israelis in America some of the spirit of home." Another successful immigrant is Chaim Zitman, 34, who left Israel 13 years ago as a student, and has become a millionaire selling electronic...
...decision to quit was precipitated in the end by a relatively minor budgetary dispute in which, ironically, moderate and hawk exchanged roles. Weizman was angered that Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, a hard-liner who had voted against the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, was advocating a 10% reduction in Israel's military spending. Weizman asserted that he could not be responsible for security if the cuts were approved. When he learned that the cuts would be recommended anyway, he decided to hand in his resignation. He stopped off at Begin's office in Jerusalem before the customary Sunday Cabinet...
...DIED. Yigal Allon, 61, commander of Israel's combat forces in the 1948 war of independence, member of the Knesset since 1954, and a hawkish voice in several Labor Party Cabinets; of a heart attack; in Asulla, Israel. Allon took tough stands on defense matters but sought a moderate, long-range solution to the Middle East conflict. Thus, the "Allon Plan" of 1967 called for Israeli withdrawal from the populated areas of the occupied West Bank and other compromises. He also hailed Egypt's 1977 peace overture to Jerusalem as "a historic chance," though he later became...