NEWS
Yitzhak Rabin Forms
Israeli Government
Jerusalem (JTA) --
Shimon Peres will be forei ,
minister and Prime Mil-
ister-designate Yitzhak
`= - -, Rabin will head the Defense
Ministry himself in the new
F--- Israeli government.
'_, Rabin won virtually
unanimous approval for the
slate of ministers from
Labor's Central Committee,
which convened in a festive
1 atmosphere Sunday at a Tel
= Aviv movie theater. There
were only two naysayers of
- -f-) the more than 1,000 com-
mittee members voting.
But Rabin appears to have
run aground in his efforts to
entice the right-wing Tsomet
party to join his coalition.
The party's leader, Rafael
Eitan, is angry that Rabin
reneged on a promise to let
him become education min-
ister, a post he gave to
• Shulamit Aloni, leader of
the left-wing Meretz bloc.
The appointment of Aloni,
,-, who is an outspoken oppo-
nent of the Orthodox re-
ligious establishment, has
also angered the United
Torah Judaism party, which
is now unlikely to join the
coalition for the foreseeable
future.
Both Rabbi Eliezer
, Schach, spiritual leader of
the party's Degel HaTorah
faction,
and Rabbi Moshe
r
[ Yehoshua Hager, the
• Hasidic rebbe of Vishnitz,
cited Rabin's selection of
Aloni in statements they
issued Sunday forbidding
theparty from entering the
coalition.
As a result, Rabin will
- have to govern with a slim
62-seat majority in the 120-
member Knesset, with addi-
tional tacit support from the
two Arab parties, which con-
trol five seats.
"I had hoped the govern-
ment would be broader,"
Rabin admitted in his
= remarks to the party faithful
Sunday.
He said he was leaving
both the Religious Affairs
Ministry and the Labor and
Welfare Ministry posts open,
in the event that other par-
ties wanted to join the
government.
The National Religious
Party has traditionally held
the first post, and the second
has been the preserve of
Agudat Yisrael, now part of
United Torah Judaism.
A small glimmer of hope
emerged when Tsomet's No.
2 Knesset member, Gonen
Segev, told reporters Sunday
that he personally favored
' --D
r
I r
resuming the negotiations
with Labor. Tsomet would
add eight seats to the coali-
tion, making it virtually im-
possible for any one party to
bring down the government.
But the bad news was that
Ashkenazic leaders of
Israel's haredi, or ultra-
Orthodox, community were
trying to persuade the
Sephardic Shas party to res-
cind its agreement with
Labor.
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Russia Convicts
Paper Of Bias
New York — In a land-
mark decision, a Russian
court has ruled that a news-
paper published by the anti-
Semitic group Pamyat libel-
ed Professor Herman
Branover of Israel.
The Dzherzinski District
Court in Moscow ruled that
the newspaper, Nash
Sovremenyik (Our Contem-
poraries), must publicly
apologize to Branover, a
former Soviet citizen, and
retract false statements it
made against him.
The court also awarded
damages to Branover, yet to
be determined, said Dr.
Marvin Aschendorf, ex-
ecutive director of American
Friends of SHAMIR, the
Association of Jewish Pro-
fessionals from the Soviet
Union in Israel, which
Branover founded.
Branover, a prominent
physicist and scholar, had
asked for 100,000 rubles, or
about $1,000.
Branover never appeared
at the court proceedings,
which took place over the
course of 10 months. He was
represented free of charge by
a Moscow Jewish lawyer,
Henry Reznik. A represent-
ative of SHAMIR often at-
tended as Branover's envoy.
The charges were filed
against the Russian paper
after it published an article
falsely quoting Branover's
autobiography as saying
that among the ac-
complishments of early
communism was the killing
of many non-Jews.
It also quoted Branover as
having written in Israel that
a national hero is one who
kills the greatest number of
non-Jews.
The newspaper has a cir-
culation of 500,000 and is
the largest of all Pamyat-
supported publications,
Branover said.
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