National Religious Party Joins Rab in Government Coalition After Hostile Knesset Debate
marked by a barrage of heck- committee to join the Rabin
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The bin's new coalition govern- Party but narrowed at the I secular Civil Rights Party.
The 59-52 vote came after ling from the Likud benches. government did not reflect
Knesset late Wednesday ap- ment enlarged by the addi- same time by the defection
Ms. Aloni, who had resign- rank-and-file opinion within
proved Premier Yitzhak Ra- tion of the National Religious of Shulamit Alon's staunchly I a raucous three-hour debate
ed from the government sev- the party.
Rabin, whose background
eral hours earlier, added her
faction's negative votes to is as a soldier and diplomat
those of Likud, the Rakah rather than a politician, was
adept in handling the
communists and the leftist
parliamentary debate. He
Moked.
reddened and fidgeted nerv-
Three veteran NRP leaders ously under the noisy Likud
—Yosef Burg, Yitzhak Ra- attack and cut short his
phael and Michael Hazani-
speech saying that there was
were sworn into the cabinet no point in engaging in po-
to head the ministries of in-
since a full scale de-
terior, religious affairs and lemics
bate on the government's
welfare respectively, the policy will be held in the
same portfolios they had in Knesset next Thursday.
the last government of Pre-
mier Golda Meir.
The most dangerous of all
Rabin expressed satisfac- moral dilemmas: when we
tion that his coalition has are obliged to conceal truth
been broadened at a time in order to help the truth to
when Israel faces imminent be victorious. If this should
problems of major signifi- at any time become our duty
cance, but the new govern- in the role assigned us by
ment's 66-54 margin is not fate, how straight must be our
as wide as he had hoped.
path at all times, if we are
The loss of the CRP's three not to perish.—Dag Ham-
Knesset votes was something marskjold
the premier had made a last
ditch effort to avoid. But he THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
was unable to conciliate Ms. Friday, November 1, 1974-15
Aloni with an offer of the
vacant communications min-
istry post.
Nor can he count on more
than eight of the NRP's 10
Knesset votes.
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Zevulun Hammer and Ye-
huda Ben-Meir, the party's
"young guard" militants who
opposed joining the govern-
ment) abstained in Wednes-
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day's voting and have yet to
decide whether they will ob-
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