Word: zamir
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...died in custody, under circumstances that have yet to be explained. Last week those deaths had embroiled the Jerusalem government in an increasingly bitter controversy that included charges of a cover-up. The struggle involved a test of wills between Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir, who wants an investigation of the chief of Shin Bet, the Hebrew acronym for Israel's general security service, which is primarily responsible for domestic antiterrorism operations...
...rare show of unity, Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who heads the conservative Likud bloc in the coalition government, joined forces to oppose Zamir. Peres insisted that the "functioning of the Shin Bet would be undermined by the investigation, and sometimes considerations of state security override legal considerations." Shamir put it more bluntly: "The Shin Bet is a jewel in the crown of the state, and we can't murder it." By week's end several Israeli newspapers speculated openly that Shamir himself, who was Prime Minister at the time, may have had knowledge of the killings...
Members of the opposition and unfriendly editorial writers accused Begin of stalling in order to give Shamir more time. But even after Shamir reached an agreement with the seven parties that make up the Likud coalition early last week, Begin stayed on. Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir declared that if Begin did not submit his resignation "within a reasonable time," then his intention to leave would be viewed as "canceled." By Wednesday, rumors buzzed around the Knesset. Begin was keeping his options open. No, he was starving himself to death. No, he had changed his mind and wanted to stay...
...Begin government in Israel is confronting the Kibbutz movement with a "hostile" environment the extent of which the movement has never before experienced in its 70-year history, Eli Zamir, general secretary of the United Kibbutz Movement (UKM), said yesterday...
Speaking to about 25 people over breakfast at Dudley House, Zamir, who represents 70,000 members from about 166 of the communal settlements, said that in order to survive, the kibbutz movement requires a social, political, and economic climate that Begin's coalition does not provide. Under all the governments of the Labor party, which was in power for almost 30 years until Begin was elected in 1977, that climate existed, he added...