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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Monday, December 29, 1997
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Monday, December 29, 1997 / Kislev 30, 5758
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. GOVERNMENT SUFFERS MORE BUDGET VOTE LOSSES
2. CALLS IN LIKUD FOR NEW ELECTIONS
3. NRP IS IN, FOR NOW
4. BOTH EXTREMES MUST BE WATCHED
5. NETANYAHU LOOKING FOR ANOTHER CHANUKAH MIRACLE
6. CONFERENCE FOR BRANOVER
7. NEW LABOR SEC'Y-GEN'L SEEKS RELIGIOUS
1. GOVERNMENT SUFFERS MORE BUDGET VOTE LOSSES
The Knesset voted against several clauses of the government budget bill
today, and the bill will return to the Knesset Finance Committee for
reconsideration. The government was defeated in the votes because of
coalition MKs from the Gesher and Yisrael B'Aliyah parties who either voted
with the opposition or were not present. Health Minister Yehoshua Matza,
as well as Gesher's Minister Levy and Yisrael B'aliyah's Ministers
Sharansky and Edelstein, were also not present for the votes. The next
budget vote is scheduled for 9 AM tomorrow morning. Prime Minister
Netanyahu said, "Success and failure are only measured at the end."
2. CALLS IN LIKUD FOR NEW ELECTIONS
Likud Knesset faction leader Meir Shitreet, meeting with the Likud Knesset
faction today, said that the "political blackmail" of the coalition parties
had "become unbearable." Shitreet called upon the Likud to disperse the
Knesset and wage new elections, at which point screaming erupted at the
Likud meeting. Communications Minister Limor Livnat proposed that the
government should not call new elections now, but should suspend all budget
legislation until March. She said that by then, "the Prime Minister will
be able to instill order within the coalition." According to the law, if a
new budget is not passed by January 1, the old budget is perpetuated, with
adjustments for inflation. If a new budget is not passed by March 31, the
government is considered to have fallen, and new elections must be held.
Later in the afternoon, Minister Michael Eitan (Likud) and Minister Avigdor
Kahalani (Third Way) announced their support for new elections, in light of
the coalition demands and the Knesset votes today.
3. NRP IS IN, FOR NOW
Except for the National Religious Party, Finance Minister Yaakov Ne'eman
was unsuccessful in his meetings today in meeting the demands of the
coalition parties. The NRP agreed to support the government at least until
10 PM tomorrow night, after it was promised that 50,000 additional hours
would be added to the educational network, in accordance with one of its
demands.
Ne'eman has proposed alternative ways of paying for the coalition-party
demands, including tighter guidelines on unemployment payments and child
allowances, and cutting 40 million shekels from subsidies to the kibbutzim.
The Knesset Finance Committee rejected the proposals during its session
today, and is formulating alternatives.
4. BOTH EXTREMES MUST BE WATCHED
Outgoing Police Commissioner Assaf Chefetz warned today of possible
violence on the part of extreme-left elements. He said that the police are
on guard for such activity in light of the type of criticism that has been
directed against the Prime Minister of late. Yesterday, Chefetz warned of
right-wing extremist violence.
5. NETANYAHU LOOKING FOR ANOTHER CHANUKAH MIRACLE
Attendance at yesterday's ministerial helicopter tour over Judea, Samaria,
and the Jordan Valley was fairly sparse. Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai
Huberman reports that most of the ministers did not take advantage of the
tour led by their colleague Minister Ariel Sharon. Not present were
Ministers Mordechai, Y. Levy, Sharansky, Hanegbi, Suissa, R. Eitan, D.
Levy, Matza, Ne'eman, and Hammer. Minister Ariel Sharon arrived today in
the Shomron community of Peduel to give a shorter version of the same tour,
this time to a delegation of Dor Shalom (Peace Generation) members, led by
the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin's son, Yuval Rabin.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said last night that yesterday's tour proved that
the Land of Israel is small and the needs are great. "I recall the
Chanukah miracle, when one flask of oil lasted for eight days. Here, too,
a miracle is required to meet all of our [political and economic] needs...
If we are not in Yesha, then we won't be able to be here [in the Tel Aviv
region]," he said.
6. CONFERENCE FOR BRANOVER
The Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) Conference in support of the
candidacy of Professor Yirmiyahu Branover for the Presidency of the State of Israel will
be held this coming Sunday evening at the Binyanei Ha'Uma Convention Center
in Jerusalem. As of yet, no other candidates have come forward to
challenge the incumbent, Ezer Weizmann. In order to run, a candidate must
have the approval of at least ten Knesset Members. The election for
President will be held in the Knesset on Feb. 16, 1998.
7. NEW LABOR SEC'Y-GEN'L SEEKS RELIGIOUS
The new secretary-general of the Labor Party, Raanan Cohen, told Arutz-7
today that he will work for closer relations between his party and the
religious public in Israel. He said that it is clear to him that Labor
will not be able to win the next election without the support of the
religious sector, that the "historic covenant" between the National
Religious Party and Labor should be renewed, and that he would not object
to doing so "even at the expense of Meretz." He said that he would advise
his Labor colleagues not to rely on the latest polls that show that Labor
would win the next election. Arutz-7's Haggai Segal asked him about the
necessity of the position that he fills, considering that Ehud Barak has
already been chosen to lead the party; he noted that Likud does not have
such a position. Cohen responded, "Labor is not Likud and can never be.
My election signifies a new openness on the part of our party to the
central sector of the political map... There have always been two leaders
in these two positions in Labor..."
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