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Cabinet Member Sees Possible Identity Crisis for Liberal Party By UZI BENZIMAN himself to his well- JERUSALEM (JTA) — If established law practice in the Liberal Party expresses, Tel Aviv and confined his and is identified with, views political activities to mar- ginal work in the Liberal similar to that held by Herut, it shall eventually Party. lose its identity and In 1977 his name ap- uniqueness, says Energy peared on the Likud. Knes- Minister Yitzhak Berman set slate and the "May (Likud-Liberal). earthquake" swept him into Berman is one of the new Parliament. He quickly ministers in Premier made his name as a solid Menahem Begin's second and serious legislator Cabinet, and one of the six In March 1980, he was Liberal Party ministers in elected Speaker of the the 17-member Cabinet Knesset, a post that sud- denly elevated him to the team. The Liberals' alliance top rank of public life. (Con- with Begin's Herut (first as stitutionally, the Speaker Gahal, now as the Likud) comes second only to the goes back to the mid-sixties. president of the state in pro- Periodically, and increas- tocolar hierarchy.) ingly of late, the Liberals During the recent elec- have come under criticism tion campaign Berman for kowtowing to the made it clear that he had hardline Herut on foreign had enough of the pomp and defense policy issues and ceremony of the and thereby betraying their speakership and his tradition as moderate party elected him as one rightwingers. of its representatives in Berman says he is very the Cabinet. aware of this widespread Berman feels that Labor sentiment — and he seems to agree with it. He would have paid precisely warns Herut to respect the same price to the reli- the different style and gious parties as the Likud approach of the Liberal paid if Labor could in that Party, and not seek to way have set up a coalition blur or overshadow it. after the elections last June. Otherwise, he says, the He believes the Liberals in Likud will lose the elec- the Cabinet and in the toral support of an im- Knesset will stand firm on portant sector of its con- their right — enshrined in rpm ow =Am we 1.1 u• stituency. Berman, who at 68 still 1 sticks doggedly to his 1 bachelorhood, became a • public figure only in 1977. 1 Until then, he confined 1 the Likud agreement with Herut — to express their in- dependent views on such is- sue's as annexation of Judea and Samaria. 552-0022 FOAMWALL INSULATION CO. PERSONAL PAPERS invitations 20% stationery OFF 356-1470 Sharon Shimansky . 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