NEWS
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
Israel Minister
Sees Emergency
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Yitzhak
Moda'i, the finance minister
in the new Likud-led coali-
tion government, believes
the Israeli public can be
counted on to rally in a na-
tional emergency.
According to Moda'i, the
emergency facing Israel now
is the mass absorption of
immigrants, mainly from
the Soviet Union. While he
says he has no plans for har-
sh economic measures to
help cover the costs of in-
tegrating the newcomers, he
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expects Israelis and overseas
Jews to contribute to it in
the form of a voluntary loan.
The public will be asked to
show its "gratitude for the
miracle of mass immigra-
tion," Moda'i said.
Moda'i is no newcomer to
the Treasury. He served as
finance minister in the
Labor-Likud unity govern-
ment set up in 1984. Work-
ing with then Prime Min-
ister Shimon Peres, he
reduced Israel's triple-digit
inflation to an annual rate of
20 percent. He held office
until 1988, when he was
ousted in a personal dispute
with Peres.
Although a member of
Likud's Liberal Party fac-
tion, which is more business-
oriented than ideologically
liberal, Moda'i has emerged
in recent years as a political
hard-liner.
Along with Ariel Sharon
and David Levy of Likud's
Herut wing, he formed a
phalanx of Likud ministers
opposed to Shamir's plan to
hold Palestinian elections in
the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
Moda'i led a group of
Likud Liberals who defected
from the party before the
unity government's collapse
in March. They formed an
independent Knesset fac-
tion, but eventually return-
ed to the Likud fold.
Moda'i, promised the Fi-
K-D nance Ministry by Likud
leader Yitzhak Shamir,
demanded that the prime
minister post a $10 million
bond to guarantee his word.
Israel's new finance min-
ister holds a degree in
chemical engineering from
the Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology in Haifa and a
law degree from the Hebrew
University. He was general
manager of the Revlon com-
pany in Israel.
Given his background as a
businessman with conser-
vative ideas, he is expected
to propose economic mea-
sures that will put him in
conflict with Histadrut.
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