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Jerusalem (JPFS) — There
is now general agreement
within the Labor Party that
the cooperation on for-
mulating Israel's peace plan
between Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Shamir and Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin is an
indication of Vice Premier
Shimon Peres' waning in-
fluence both in the govern-
ment and in the party — and
of Rabin's gradual rise to
prominence.
"Peres has been completely
left out of the present round
of talks and is very
frustrated," one Labor
minister said.
For the past several weeks,
while Rabin's idea of pro-
ceeding toward an interim
settlement that sidesteps the
question of territories for
peace — and is therefore ac-
ceptable to both the Likud
and Labor — • has been
adopted by Shamir and suc-
cessfully presented to the
United States as a viable
peace plan, Peres has been
telling his political allies that
he now opposes the idea of a
two-stage solution.
Instead, Peres prefers a plan
that will deal directly and im-
mediately with the final set-
tlement — on which there is

-

a bitter disagreement bet-
ween the two parties — which
would almost inevitably lead
to the collapse of the current
unity government.
"It is an understatement to
say that Peres wants the
government to break up," said
the minister.
"With every day that
passes, Rabin gets stronger in
the party," said one Labor
Knesset member. "Rabin
understands that the current
support for Peres is very tem-
porary, and he almost certain-
ly is considering a try for the
party leadership."
If Rabin decides to
challenge Peres at the party
convention in 1990, the
general feeling in Labor is
that the declared candidates,
Moshe Shahal, Gad Ya'acobi
and Mordechai Gur, will
withdraw from the race and
each will try to form an
alliance with Rabin with a
view towards becoming his
number two and probable
successor.
But if Rabin resumes the
political leadership of the
Labor Party (which he held
from 1974 to 1977), he and
Shamir may then find their
alliance to be a temporary
one.

Shamir Reveals Family
Perished In Holocaust

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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1989

Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir's
recent revelation about the
death of his family in Nazi
Europe was met with much
surprise, as well as armchair
debate on the psychological
nature of the Israeli prime
minister's motivations and
fears.
While reading out loud the
names of his family members
killed by the Nazis, Shamir
disclosed that his father was
killed by Polish childhood
friends in his own village,
after he succeeded in escap-
ing from a German death
train.
"My father, Shlomo Ysernit-
zky, who escaped before the
train left for a death camp
and while seeking shelter
among friends in the village
where he grew up, they, his
friends from childhood, killed
him," Shamir said in a
trembling voice.
Shamir revealed this on
Holocaust Remembrance Day
last Tuesday, while par-
ticipating in a day-long public
reading of names of Holocaust
victims at the Knesset.

He also listed other
members of his family who
died at the hands of the Nazis.
His mother, Pearl, and a
sister apparently died in
death camps, while another
sister was shot dead by the
Nazis.
Shamir's family ex-
periences have often pro-
mpted conjecture about his
political motivations. In this
week's New York Times
Magazine, the paper's former
Jerusalem bureau chief
writes that Shamir's pur-
ported intransigence is the
result of an obsession with
the Holocaust.
Shamir "exemplifies those
Israeli leaders whose vision of
tomorrow is yesterday," wrote
Thomas Friedman.
An aide said he was unsure
what prompted Shamir to go
public with the information
about his family.
Shamir, 73, was born and
raised in the village of
Rozinoy. He left in the early
1930s to study, going first to
Jewish high school and later
to university in Warsaw. He
left for Palestine in 1935.