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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...
...founding fathers of Israel, Knesset Member Shlomo Lorincz reminded his parliamentary colleagues, used to joke that when their state became a full-fledged nation, it would even have "Jewish crooks." Well, Lorincz added caustically, referring to the scandals that have rocked Yitzhak Rabin's government, "we are more than a nation. We are a superpower...
...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...
...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...