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...area that has bred small cells of violent fanatics, including, Israeli officials say, adherents of the Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, who claimed responsibility for the embassy bombing. The mounting tension between the occupying Israelis and the Shi'ite population was emphasized by Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week when he said, "Any permanent Israel Defense Forces presence in southern Lebanon constitutes a time bomb...
Peres was speaking to the Reagan Administration as much as to the Israeli citizen. The Prime Minister-accompanied by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who under the terms of the coalition agreement will swap jobs with Peres after 25 months-is scheduled to meet with Reagan in Washington on Oct. 9. Anticipating that the election-year U.S. Congress will approve a record $2.6 billion in economic and military aid to Israel for fiscal 1985, which starts Oct. 1, Israeli officials will ask that Washington give them $1.2 billion of that amount immediately to meet interest payments...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...
...spite of the vote to cut the budget, Cabinet officials must determine where the $1 billion in savings will come from. Although each minister is expected to recommend trims in his own department, some officials contend that fiscal realities leave them little flexibility. Education Minister Yitzhak Navon, for example, faces a 12½% budget cut and may have to scrap benefits like free high school education...
...accord was easily approved by the legislature, and Peres was sworn in as Prime Minister. He will be the country's leader during the next 25 months while Shamir serves as Foreign Minister and acting Prime Minister; for the following 25 months, the two men will switch jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will be Defense Minister during the entire 50-month term. Yitzhak Modai, until last week the Likud government's Energy Minister, will head the crucial Finance Ministry. Ariel Sharon, the Likud politician who was forced to resign from...