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...shown on Israeli television last week, is typical of the tales of economic woe that have be come standard fare. A few days earlier the government announced that prices had risen 11.6% in December alone, bringing the inflation rate for 1983 to a record 190.7%. That prompted Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad to impose new rules barring Israelis from holding or taking out of the country more than $2,000 a year in foreign currency. He announced that Israeli workers would get a cost-of-living increase of only 9.1% next month, not enough to keep up with inflation...
Shamir's problems grew worse when word leaked out that Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad's new austerity program included a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank. The government spends an estimated $700 million a year, not counting defense costs, on the occupied region. Cohen-Orgad's proposal immediately brought protests from right-wingers, who regard the settlement program as insurance that the West Bank will remain in Israeli hands. Indeed, the Techiya Party, whose support is necessary if Shamir's coalition is to retain its slim four-seat majority, threatened to bolt...
...would put before the Cabinet for final approval the Egyptian requirement that 30 tanks and six batteries of howitzers remain on the east bank of the Canal. At noon we were finished. "It is a good agreement," I said. "It is not a bad agreement," said Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon. " 'Not bad' is Hebrew for 'good,' " explained Eban, ever the diplomat...
...startling recovery of Begin and his Likud coalition was due in part to Labor's overconfidence and failure to mount an aggressive early offensive. The departure from Begin's Cabinet of such prickly individualists as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz helped to give the coalition the illusion of unity, even if some critics saw it more properly as a vacuum. Newly appointed Finance Minister Yoram Aridor had added an undeniably popular move by reducing excise taxes and import duties on luxury items like color television sets and autos. The "Aridor...
...hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier by a blue-ribbon committee. In the Cabinet, however, the salary question provoked a collision between two stubborn antagonists: Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who was determined to forestall any new wage spiral that would further boost the country's 140% hyperinflation, and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt equally committed to the teachers. Each vowed to resign if he lost the battle, taking precious parliamentary votes with him. Thus either...