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Rabin Builds Coalition,
Parties To Talk
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
process of building a govern-
ing coalition began in
earnest as Israeli President
Chaim Herzog began legally
mandated meetings with the
10 parties elected to the new
Knesset.
The consultations, to de-
termine which party has the
best chance of forming a
government, are this year a
formality: Final election
returns announced last week
show that Labor's Yitzhak
Rabin and the parties to his
left have a decisive bloc of 61
seats. That is enough to head
off any right-wing coalition
in the 120- member parlia-
ment.
The modified results
reflect the counting of the
soldiers' vote. They give
Labor 44 seats, down one
from the earlier estimates.
Shas also lost a seat, by a
mere 36 votes, bringing it
down to six. The
beneficiaries were Moledet
and Tsomet, which each
gained a seat, for a total of 3
and 8 respectively.
Mr. Herzog's meetings will
continue, and he is expected
to formally summon Mr.
Rabin. Mr. Rabin will then
have three weeks to assem-
ble a coalition, with the pos-
sibility of an extension.
But the chairman of
Labor's parliamentary fac-
tion, Haim Ramon, said that
the party hopes to present its
coalition when the 13th
Knesset convenes for its first
session on July 13.
"All our prospective part-
ners should take this into
account," Mr. Ramon warn-
ed. He added that if the co-
alition was not as broad as
Labor hoped, Mr. Rabin
would present a narrower
one.
His remarks were part of
the public posturing being
played out as counterpoint to
the political bargaining now
under way behind closed
doors.
Adding to the stakes in
this year's coalition poker,
and to uncertainty among
political pundits, is that Mr.
Rabin can in theory form a
coalition in any of several
ways.
In a move designed to set
one prospective coalition
member at ease, Labor Sec-
retary-General Micha
Harish told reporters that
the Meretz bloc was expected
to be Labor's natural part-
ner.
Rumors had been cir-
culating that the left-wing,
anti- religious Meretz might
be sidestepped to enable
Labor to join with the Or-
thodox haredi parties, the
right-wing and anti- re-
ligious Tsomet party, and
even the right-wing Nation-
al Religious Party.
Meanwhile, the Council of
Sages of the haredi Shas
party formally empowered
the party's Knesset mem-
bers to enter into negotia-
tions, thereby following the
initial, hesitant step already
taken by the Council of
Sages of the Agudat Yisrael
faction of the United Torah
Judaism party.
Rabbi Eliezer Schach, the
96-year-old spiritual head of
the shrunken aegel
HaTorah faction of United
Torah Judaism, still re-
portedly harbors hopes of a
Labor-haredi-rightist coali-
tion, excluding the "anti-
Torah" Meretz party.
Rabbi Schach's influence
has been greatly weakened
as a result of the election,
however.
Three Israelis
Killed In Gaza
Jerusalem (JTA) — Two
Israelis were brutally
murdered by Arab
assailants in the Gaza Strip
and an Israeli soldier was
killed in a gun battle in the
West Bank that left three
Palestinians dead.
The bloodshed, the worst
in weeks, interrupted the
formation of a new govern-
ment in the aftermath of the
Knesset elections.
Yitzhak Rabin broke off
coalition talks to warn ter-
rorists that his regime would
crack down "with all possi-
ble force" on inciters and
killers.
The civilian victims were
identified as Moshe Bino, 49,
of Ashkelon and Ami
Salzman, 59, from Ness
Ziona, co-managers of the Al
Kuba meat-packing plant in
the Gaza Strip.
They were mortally
wounded by four intruders
who arrived by car and,
pretending to be buyers,
gained entry to the plant.
Once inside they repeatedly
stabbed their victims in the
chest and back and fled.
An army doctor summoned
to the scene tried vainly to
save them but both men died
shortly after being attacked.
They brought to three the
number of Israeli civilians
stabbed to death by Arabs in
the Gaza Strip since May 27.