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. SAY IT WITH TREES JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 18877 W. Ten Mile Road Suite 104 Southfield, Michigan 48075 Phone; (313) 557-6644 Monday thru Thursday, 9 AM to 5 PM Friday 9 AM to 4 PM KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL latrzr, 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 rt:t", AMERICAN RED MAGEN DAVID FOR ISRAEL Michigan Region Extends Best Wishes For A Year of Health, Peace & Prosperity To All Our Friends and The Entire Jewish Community 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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