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...able to start manufacturing two or three small nuclear weapons within a year. Despite that, not all of the committee's Cabinet-level members were in favor of a pre-emptive raid. Among those opposed were Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin, Interior Minister Yosef Burg and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt that the attack would damage relations with the U.S. But Begin prevailed with the support of such Israeli hawks as Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In October 1980, the raid plan was given the go-ahead. Thereafter, Begin took complete personal control...
...teachers, approved earlier by a blue-ribbon committee. In the Cabinet, however, the salary question provoked a collision between two stubborn antagonists: Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, who was determined to forestall any new wage spiral that would further boost the country's 140% hyperinflation, and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt equally committed to the teachers. Each vowed to resign if he lost the battle, taking precious parliamentary votes with him. Thus either way Begin's coalition would be left without a majority in parliament...
...other side was Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, a rising figure in the National Religious Party, which is a major partner in Begin's four-party Likud coalition. Supporting the teachers, Hammer insisted that the government had already agreed to abide by the recommendations of a blue-ribbon committee that had taken up the teachers' demands after a strike two years ago. Besides improved fringe benefits, the committee had endorsed pay increases that ranged from 30% to 60%. The teachers presently earn an average of $200 a month. The panel recommended that their pay be upgraded to the level...
...ridden piece of contemporary Israeli literature." Hirbet Hiza is required reading in Israeli high schools and has been translated into Arabic. Last week, however, when Israel's national television network scheduled a filmed version, the showing was canceled 90 minutes before air time by Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer...
Traditionalists have rallied to the defense of the lists. Zevulun Hammer, a Knesset member who belongs to the staunchly Orthodox National Religious Party, argues that they are essential "if the rabbinical registrars are to do their work according to halakhic law." That will not satisfy the growing number of Israelis who want laws permitting civil marriage. Until now change has been impossible because, although only one-fifth of the populace consider themselves to be religious, the N.R.P. provides essential votes for the coalition government. But the blacklist scandal could shift the political realities during the Knesset session that opens next...