Word: yitzhak
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...Aviv. Inside the car was a .22-cal. revolver and the body of a man who had shot himself in the head after scribbling a final message to his wife and children, asking them to "accept this act with understanding." The victim: Avraham Ofer, 55, Housing Minister in Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government and a longtime Labor Party official...
...funeral. Speaking to the country's political elite at a crowded service in Tel Aviv, Rabin recalled how Ofer had come to him to discuss the accusations in what turned out to be their final meeting. "Your words still ring in my ears," the Premier said. ' 'Yitzhak,' you told me, 'believe me, I am not guilty of any transgressions.' I replied to you, Avraham, that I, Yitzhak Rabin, wholly trust in your innocence...
...generous reckoning the G.N.P. grew by 2.8% last year. And the unemployment rate, which in the past hardly ever rose above 3%, is creeping up toward 5%. Small wonder that the economy is a central issue in this spring's special elections forced by the resignation of Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME...
...Jerusalem, Yitzhak Rabin threw his country into political turmoil by resigning as Israel's Premier, after first having expelled the three members of the National Religious Party from his insecure coalition Cabinet. Rabin presumably will stay on as Premier until the next elections, which will take place some time in the spring, instead of November as scheduled. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy angrily accused Rabin of "Israeli acrobatics"-but the Arabs know full well that there can be no serious negotiations until Israel's political crisis is untangled...
...part of our Bicentennial observance, TIME asked leaders of nations around the world to address the American people through the pages of TIME on how they view the U.S. and what they hope-and expect-from the nation in the years ahead. This message from Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel is the ninth in the series...