Word: yitzhak
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...this year, 41,578 Soviet Jews have arrived in Israel; by year's end, the total may reach 150,000. As acting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir seeks Knesset approval of his new right-wing government this week, he faces the growing dilemma of how to house and employ the largest flood of immigrants to Israel since the early 1950s. Meanwhile, Moscow's decision to lift the gates on Jewish emigration has so infuriated Arab leaders that their outcry no doubt prompted President Mikhail Gorbachev to utter a veiled threat at his final press conference in Washington last week. If Israel...
...territories, after three days of violence left 15 dead, including an Israeli murdered in Jerusalem, and at least 800 wounded. But the sudden escalation proved that the uprising lives, despite both Israeli force and Arab infighting, making a mockery of a prediction three weeks ago by Major General Yitzhak Mordechai, commander in the West Bank, that the Palestinians were "in retreat...
Despite the explosive atmosphere, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir continued his leisurely efforts to form a narrow right-wing coalition after the collapse of the national unity government two months ago. Shamir's prospects may depend on the cooperation of a far-right party headed by Rehavam Ze'evi, who is demanding the sensitive post of Police Minister as the price for his support. Ze'evi informed the Knesset last week, "Arabs only understand when they are clubbed on the head." Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, one of 46 Palestinians who launched a hunger strike to protest last week's killings...
...electoral-reform movement emerged after Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's national-unity government collapsed last March in bitter disagreement over the peace process. Since then, the two main blocs and the handful of small religious parties that hold the balance of power have engaged in an especially crude game of barter. The five-member Liberal party demanded a $10 million bond to guarantee that a Likud-led coalition would stick to promises swapped for Liberal support. Labor leader Shimon Peres spent five weeks trying to purchase his own majority with generous offers of ministries and money to the religious parties...
That is the message former Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin picked up when he visited Washington last January. According to an important Jewish leader, Rabin returned to Jerusalem with a message for Israel's inner Cabinet: "This year's money is safe, but there will be a future problem unless Israel meets with the Palestinians and shows a willingness to make peace...