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...dream come true for Israel's Jews, who have feared they would become a minority in Greater Israel, with the Palestinian population growing so much faster than their own. It is counted as blessed news by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who predicts that most of the new Israelis will vote for his hard-line Likud bloc. But it is a considerable headache for Israel's economy, where housing and jobs are already in short supply. And it is a nightmare to the Palestinians, who see the influx as a new threat to their long fight for a state...
...purchase 33,000 mobile homes and to bunk at least 100,000 new arrivals at 21 army bases. So far only a few thousand Soviet Jews have moved to the West Bank, but government incentives are luring other Jews there in search of cheaper housing. Last week Absorption Minister Yitzhak Peretz called for the creation of tent cities to help house the 400,000 immigrants expected this year. "In the short run, it's a great problem," admits Peres. "In the long run, it's a great promise...
...timing of the resolution promised tocomplicate U.S.-Israeli relations with IsraeliPrime Minister Yitzhak Shamir arriving in theUnited States yesterday. He was to meet Bush onTuesday...
...giveaway was designed to protest a proposed ban on the sale of pork by Jewish businesses. The pork law was one of four concessions the government made to the small ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel party last week in return for a coalition agreement. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir also promised to impose further restrictions on abortion, curb public transportation on the Sabbath, and outlaw certain forms of advertising deemed obscene by religious leaders...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir responded to the outcry by clamping new restrictions on Palestinian workers. Computers are churning out expanded lists of Palestinians banned from entering Israel for security reasons, while authorities raided restaurants, shops and factories last week and rounded up more than 1,000 illegal Arab workers. Economics Minister David Magen promised to introduce measures to cut in half the number of Palestinians from the territories working in Israel...