Word: yoram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time that the Begin government had been accused of mismanagement of the economy. Confronted with widespread discontent over Israel's triple-digit inflation during his re-election campaign last year, Begin appointed Yoram Aridor as Finance Minister and gave him a mandate to lower taxes on such luxury items as color TVs and household appliances, a short-term ploy that helped the Likud win the election-but only at the cost of rekindled inflation a few months later...
...departure from Begin's Cabinet of such prickly individualists as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz helped to give the coalition the illusion of unity, even if some critics saw it more properly as a vacuum. Newly appointed Finance Minister Yoram Aridor had added an undeniably popular move by reducing excise taxes and import duties on luxury items like color television sets and autos. The "Aridor effect," as it promptly became known, sent Israelis on a crazy buying spree. Laborites angrily charged that it was a shameless attempt to buy votes...
Begin's government has shown unexpected resourcefulness in the early stage of the campaign. Much of the credit belongs to Begin's new Finance Minister, Yoram Aridor, appointed last January. Confronted with Israel's breathtaking 130% annual inflation rate, Aridor, 42, came up with a savvy political response: drastic cuts in the country's steep excise and import taxes on autos, color television sets, washing machines and other consumer products. While polls in January predicted an absolute Labor majority in the 120-seat Knesset, they now show Labor with only 45 seats, Begin's Likud...
...views of the four Israelis at the Sofia meeting have practically nothing to do with mainstream Israeli thinking. Many members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition were furious over the meeting, and one member, Deputy Minister Yoram Aridor, charged that a "grave felony" had taken place. Said one Israeli official: "When a Communist Party member who is loyal to Moscow meets with Arafat, it has no significance except for its public relations value to Arafat...