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...told me how it was fighting Egyptians in '48 and how it is now fighting the economy; Author Amos Oz, who interrupted work on his new novel to explain how deeply Israelis care about what other people think of them; and Opposition Leader Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who took time from their election campaign for private interviews with TIME." Kelly was accompanied on his rounds by TIME Photographer David Rubinger, 60, who immigrated to Israel from Vienna before World War II. Reporter Robert Slater, 40, whose interviews ranged from Israel's Finance Minister to Jerusalem...
What concerns many Israelis is that some Orthodox Jews want to regulate daily life according to Halakhah, or religious law. Coed swimming would be outlawed, only kosher food would be served, television and radio programs would be banned from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. For former President Yitzhak Navon, 63, the dilemma cuts to the very heart of what Israel should be. "Are we going to live according to the laws of Moses or to the laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will...
...besieged gulf, the Iraqis are desperate to find an alternative route that will allow them to replenish their war-drained treasury. It was learned last week that a suggestion had come from an unexpected source: the Israelis. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, Prime Yitzhak Shamir revealed that offered to let Iraq pump its oil through long-unused pipeline, built in the 1930s, stretches from Baghdad to the Israeli port of Haifa. Iraq, which does not recognize Israel, rejected the invitation...
...drama of a very different kind that was unfolding at the exhibition grounds convention center in Tel Aviv. There, at a meeting of the central committee of the Herut Party, the main group within the ruling Likud bloc, former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was challenging Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for the party leadership...
Shamir can, however, still expect a leadership challenge from former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. And even as his Herut Party was squabbling, the opposition Labor Party showed unity as it rallied behind Leader Shimon Peres. Before 1,000 party delegates, Peres' archrival Yitzhak Rabin declared, "The fifth President of the state of Israel and the fifth Prime Minister-if you've forgotten, that's me-recommends electing the fifth Defense Minister Shimon Peres as the eighth Prime Minister of the state of Israel." Although all those numbers may have sent heads reeling, other figures were sure...