Rabin - Led Cabinet Begins to Rule Israel

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Labor Alignment, the Inde-
pendent Liberal Party and
the Citizens' Rights Party
commands only 61 Knesset
votes, and defections are pos-
sible from within the Labor
Party ranks, either by ab-
stentions or negative ballots.
.The cabinet presented to
President Katzir consists of
the following: Premier, Yitz-
hak Rabin; Deputy Premier
and Foreign Minister, Yigal
Allon; Defense Minister,
Shimon Peres; Information
Minister, Aharon Yariv; Min-
ister of. Education and Cul-
ture, Aharon Yadlin (pres-
ently Labor Party secretary
general); Minister of Com-
merce and Industry, Haim
Barley; Minister of Trans-
port, Gad Yaacobi; Police
Minister, Shlomo Hillel; Min-
ister of Justice, Haim Zadok;
Housing Minister, Yehoshua
Rabinowitz; Labor Minister,
Moshe Bar Am; Minister of
Absorption, Shlomo Rosen;
Minister of Health, Victor
Shem-Tov; Minister of Agri-
culture, Aharon Uzzan; Min-
ister of Tourism, Moshe Kol;
Communications Ministe r,
Avraham Ofer.
Ministers without portfolio
are Shulamit Aloni; Gideon
Hausner, of the ILP; and
Israel Galili, of the Labor
Party, who is a member of
the outgoing Meir govern-
ment.
The position of Abba Eban
is not certain. The outgoing
foreign minister has made
no effort to conceal his bitter-
ness at being dropped by
Rabin, and he .abstained in
the party voting. Labor MK
Mordehai Porat of the Rafi
faction has threatened to
vote against the new govern-
ment and then resign his
Knesset seat. Two other
Labor MKs, Yitzhak Navon
and David Koren, also ab-
stained. Navon explained
later that he refused to vote
because one of the ministers
designated by Rabin was un-
suitable for the job. He did
not name the minister and
said he would support the
government in the Knesset
nevertheless.
Outgoing Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan also promised
to vote for the Rabin regime,
but only "under duress."
Premier Golda Meir herself
seemed to be in a dilemma.
She vowed publicly not to
support a government that
includes Shulamit A 1 o n
leader of the CRP, who has
been named minister with-
out-portfolio by Rabin. She
has indicated that she would
resign her Knesset seat- be-
fore the vote of confidence
comes up. But this is pre-
cluded by Israeli law which
requires an incumbent prime
minister to remain in office
until a successor is sworn in.
She is expected to vote for
the Rabin government, also
"under duress."
In a bitter speech at Tues-
day night's party meeting,
Eban said it was wrong to
pretend that Rabin had
wanted him in the govern-
ment but was unable to in-
clude him for technical rea-
sons. He wondered aloud
whether this would be the
last time that Israel looks to
the Labor Party for leader-
ship. Rabin had included
Eban in a provisional slate
submitted to the party earlier

in the week as information
minister. Eban regarded that
appointment as. a demotion
and said he would not serve
in the new government.
In the event of defections
from within Labor ranks, the
new government is expected
to squeak through the Knes-
set with the support of the
pro-Moscow Rakah Commu-
nists (four votes) and the
far-left Moked faction (one
vote). The National Religious
Party and the Aguda bloc
have not yet decided whether
to vote against the Rabin
regime or abstain—they will
not vote for it. The Likud
opposition is trying to per-
suade the religious parties
to join it in a solid opposi-
tion phalanx of 54 seats.
Likud leader Menahem Begin
has already denounced the
new government as a national
disgrace and the weakest in
Israel's history.
Rabin himself declared that
his government would be one
of continuity and change. He
said it would continue the
work and achievements of
the outgoing Meir govern-
ment and at the same time
try to affect needed changes
in both domestic and foreign
policies.
"We stand before great
challenges and from the ex-
perience of the Jewish peo-
ple, we know that great
challenges produce new and
strong forces of leadership,"
Rabin said.
Rabin's new government
will not be complete when it
takes office. When Finance
Minister Sapir adamantly re-
fused to continue in govern-
ment service, Rabin was
forced to select a last-minute
replacement for the key post
in the person of Yaacov Lev-
inson, an executive of the
Histadrut-owned Bank Ha-
poalim (Workers Bank). But
Levinson cannot assume the
office for three months be-
cause of previous obligations.
Rabin announced that Justice
Minister-designate Haim
Zadok will 'serve as acting
finance minister for that
period.
Similarly, the interior min-
istry and the ministry of re-
ligious affairs, traditionally
held by the NRP, will be
headed by an acting minister
for the time being. Rabin has
named Police Minister Shlo-
mo Hillel for that task. He
has not vet decided who will
head the welfare ministry,
also previously held by the
NRP. The three ministries
are being kept vacant on the
chance that the NRP will
eventually join the new coali-
tion; but they will not be
kept open indefinitely.

Dulzin Defends
Role of Likud

PARIS (JTA) — Leon Dul-
zin, chairman of the Jewish
Agency and World Zionist
Organization executives, told
the European conference of
the World Union of General
Zionists, of which he is co-
chairman, that Israel must
have a government of na-
tional unity "in response to
the critical times."
Addressing the two-day
conference of delegates from
eight European countries and
Israel, Dulzin emphatically
rejected the notion spread,
he said, by the Labor Align-
ment, that the Likud would
hamper peace negotiations.
He said that people who are
not keen on giving away ter-
ritory for nothing were not
necessarily against peace
negotiations.
Jacques Torczyner, mem-
ber of the Jewish Agency and
co-chairman of the World
Union of General Zionists,
also demanded a government
of national unity and called
upon Zionists everywhere to
make their voices heard on
issues concerning the destiny
of Israel "which is ultimately
the destiny of the Jewish peo-
ple as a whole." Delegates to

the conference were from pate itself from the myth
France, Britain, Switzerland, that Israel possesses the mili- BRING AD! ... GET
Sweden, Denmark, Austria, tary upper-hand over the
Holland and West Germany. Arabs. The Yom Kippur War
has shown, writes the paper,
that this is a fiction. It coun-
Reaction by Arabs
sels the new leadership,
to Rabin's Selection
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—The which must face difficult
Arabic press in the Old City trials ahead, that it rid itself DISCOUNT
of Jerusalem responded with of illusions and accept the OFF REGULAR PRICE,
mixed views on the selection fact of the existence of a
of Yitzhak Rabin as Israel's "Palestinian nation." This is
premier. The Arabic paper the first step, the paper goes
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El Sheab writes that while on, to insuring peace and
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malists, dreaming of a Great-
ter Land of Israel, Yitzhak
Rabin may be an exception
in that he seems to demon-
strate a somewhat newer ap-
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conflict.
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The newspaper expresses
the hope that the new leader-
ship will present a new pos-
ture leading to a "just and
honorable peace."
The newspaper Al Kuds
writes' that the new genera-
tion of leaders must emanci-

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`Unique Jewish System' Noted
in Development of Yiddish

NEW YORK—The recent
48th annual conference of the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Re-
search celebrated "A Millen-
nium of Yiddish" in honor of
the late Max Weinreich's
classic "History of the Yid-
dish Language."
The work treats not only
the development of Yiddish
but also of the entire Ashken-
azic culture, begun around
1000 CE in the Rhineland.
At the opening session of
the conference at the Bilt-
more Hotel, Dr. Steven Low-
enstein, YIVO research asso-
ciate and assistant archivist,
said "Although Jews as a
group and Yiddish as a lan-
guage system have always
borrowed from non-Jews,
these borrowings have al-
ways been integrated into an
autonomous and uniquely
Jewish system.
"In the course of Jewish
migrations, Yiddish speakers
have always adopted some
language traits of the non-
Jews in the areas in which
they settled, while keeping
some of the traits they
brought with them from ear-
lier places of settlement. The
result of this recurrent pro-
cess is that Jewish speech
was never exactly the same

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 31, 1974-5

as non-Jewish speech in the
same place."
At the same session Dr.
Shlomo Eidelberg, professor
of history at Stern College,
presented a paper on "The
Historical Background of the
Jewish Community in Ash-
kenaz, Circa 1000 C.E." He
suggested that that commun-
ity was founded by Jews who
had left France and .Italy in
order to avoid "heretical no-
tions" coming from Arab cul-
tural influence.

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