THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 9, 1983
Small Party Factions Talk With Likud, Labor
JERUSALEM. (JTA) —
e arduous task of putting
ogether a new Likud-led
oalition government after
remier Menahem Begin
ormally resigns continued
his week. But the smaller
oalition parties, aware of
eir strong bargaining
ositions, have delayed
igning a coalition agree-
ent and are laying down
onditions for their partici-
ation in a new government
to be headed by Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
is has • created an air of
ncertainty.
Shamir was elected by the
00-member Herut central
ommittee late Thursday
ight to succeed Begin. He
efeated his rival, Deputy
remier David Levy, by a
ote of 436-302 in what was
escribed as an upset vic-
ry resulting from massive
fforts by the Herut Party
achine.
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Coalition chairman Av-
raham Sharir of the Aguda
Israel Party announced
later that all coalition
partners had signed a letter
to President Chaim Herzog
asking him to call on
Shamir to form a new gov-
ernment once he has Be-
gin's resignation.
But the "letter of in-
tent" appeared to be only
a coalition tactic to for-
estall the possibility of
Herzog calling on Labor
Party chairman Shimon
Peres to form a new gov-
ernment. The Labor
Alignment is the largest
Knesset 'faction, com-
manding 50 seats to
Likud's 46. That situation
accounts for the bargain-
ing strength • of the
smaller parties -- Aguda
Israel, Tehiya, National
Religious Party and Tami
whose combined votes
give the- government its
Knesset majority.
Begin, who had been ex-
pected to hand in his resig-
nation to Herzog over the
weekend, has postponed it
at least until after the Rosh
Hashana holidays. He is
apparently anxious to give
Likud more time to com-
plete negotiations with its
coalition partners.
The ministerial negotiat-
ing team, headed by Levy,
met Monday with represen-
tatives of the coalition
partners. But fears were ex-
pressed in Likud circles that
the task is growing more
and more complicated. One
reason is that the NRP and
Tami seem to be considering
an alternative coalition and
their representatives have
been negotiating openly
with Labor. The four Aguda
MKs have also spoken "in
favor of negotiating" with
the Alignment. Mordehai
Ben-Porat of Telem, a
minister-without-portfolio,
was scheduled to meet with
Peres Tuesday in an effort
to convince the Labor leader
to join Likud in a national
unity government.
Shamir, meanwhile, met
with the coalition parties
Sunday in what was de-
scribed as an atmosphere of
"animosity and suspicion."
The fact that no coalition
agreement has been signed
more than a week after
Begin announced his inten-
tion to resign has worried
Likud. Begin, by hinting
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that he might turn in his reason to panic because
resignation to the President Likud's partners were talk-
at any time, seemed to be ing to the opposition.
putting pressure on his coal-
He said he fully trusted
ition partners to strike a earlier statements by the
deal quickly.
partners that they preferred
Energy Minister Yitz- to be members of a Likud-
hak Modai of Likud's led coalition than one
Liberal Party wing said headed by Labor.
Monday that if a coalition
Nevertheless, the coali-
agreement had been tion partners, except the
signed immediately after ultra-nationalist Tehiya,
Begin announced he continued discussions
would-resign, a new gov- with Labor Alignment
ernment could have been ieaders. Alignment
formed without delay. As sources expressed "cau-
matters stand now, there tious optimism" that
are difficultibs, he said.
their prospects of form-
A senior Herut source ing a new government
was quoted by Yediot were no less than
Ahronot on Monday as say- Likud's. Six Likud liber-
ing things are mot that sim- als and representatives
ple. "We are no longer that of the NRP and Tami
confident that Shamir will have indicated they are
succeed in forming a gov- at least considering such
ernment."
a possibility.
But Deputy Premier Levy , Tami, whose constituency
has discounted the negotia- is the Sephardic commu-
tions between the smaller nity, said it would press
coalition elements and Likud for full implementa-
Labor. He said there was no tion of the social clauses in
Poet Amicha•; A Profile
By YEHUDIT KIRSCHEN
Features from Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — If there
is one poet who can be said
to be the voice of Israel's
middle generation, it is
Yehuda Amichai. Born in
Wurzburg, Germany,.
Amichai came at 13 to what
was then Palestine in 1937..
When he was in his early
30s, Amichai established
himself as one of the leaders
of a group of new poets who
rejected their predecessors'
formality and with it, the
- automatic idealization of
the land and the Jewish
people.
Questioning and intros-
pection took their place:
questions about history,
about human relationships,
about God, and most of all,
about identity — as a person
and as a Jew.
Amichai was raised
and educated in
Jerusalem and still lives
in this city of stone and
light, with his wife and
three children. The poet,
who taught Hebrew lit-
erature at the Greenberg
Institute in Jerusalem for
more than 20 years and
before that in municipal
high schools, is a familiar
figure to Jerusalemites;
they often see Amichai, a
man of medium height,
brown eyes and casual
appearance, exploring
the city he has written so
much about.
Amichai, who has
traveled widely reading his
poems and lecturing (he has
been visiting poet at the
University of California at
Berkley), has published
seven books of poetry, as
well as a novel, plays and
short stories.
Much of his poetry has
been published in English;.
the latest, a collection of his
love poems, was put out by
Harper and Row in 1982. He
has worked with various
Excited mental activity
operates as a counterpoise
to the stimulus of sense and
appetite.
C
{: ,
the coalition platform still
to be hammered out. Aguda
Israel spokesmen said their
signatures on a coalition
agreement depended on
"full and complete fulfill-
ment of all outstanding co-
alition agreements," includ-
ing the controversial "Who
Is A Jew" issue which is op-
posed by Liberal' Party
members.
Another troubling factor
is reports of a deal between
Shamir and former Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon, now
a minister-without-
portfolio, according to
which Sharon was promised
the chairmanship of the inf-
luential ministerial settle-
ment committee. That
would put him in charge of
'settlement activities on the
West Bank.
This is opposed by the
Liberals, who want the post
for their man,. Minister of
Agriculture-designate Pes-
sah Grupper, and by
Tehiya, which wants it for,
their leader, Science Minis-
ter Yuval Neeman.
Moreover, a comeback
by Sharon is strongly op-
posed by Liberal Party
doves headed by Yitzhak
Berman and Dror
Seigerman. Levy, for his
part, has promised to
support Shamir despite
their bitter rivalry for the
Likud leadership before
the party vote last
Thursday.
Shamir has vowed to con-
tinue the policies laid down
by Begin. He said he re-
garded his appointment as a
"temporary trusteeship"
which he would readily
hand back to Begin
whenever the latter wishes.
.It is considered unlikely
that Begin, who has just
turned 70 and is not in the
best of health, would agree
to resume , the premiership
at a later date. There were
reports Monday, however,
that Begin does not intend
to withdraw entirely from
political life for the time be-
ing. According to the re-
ports, he will continue to
serve as a Knesset member.
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Hughes. In 1982 he received
the prestigious Israel Prize
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