HAGOPIAN MOVING SALE
Rabin Not Likely
To Add Parties
Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin has
put off a planned meeting
with the leader of the
Tsomet party, and observers
say it is now less likely he
will bring the right- wing
faction into his governing
coalition.
Both Tsomet and the Na-
tional Religious Party said
they were interested in join-
ing the Labor-led coalition
following the government's
decision last week to expel
415 Moslem fundamenta-
lists from the administered
territories.
But observers predict they
will be rebuffed because the
left-wing Meretz bloc, now
the senior coalition partner,
has threatened to quit at
once should either Tsomet or
the National Religious Party
join.
Mr. Rabin, who has long
courted Tsomet in an effort
to broaden his parliamen-
tary base, put off a scheduled
meeting Monday with its
leader, Rafael Eitan.
His move came after
Tsomet and NRP said they
sought assurances before
entering into substantive
coalition negotiations with
Labor that Mr. Rabin was
"not committed to Meretz's
veto."
For all Mr. Rabin's desire
to bring Tsomet in, he would
be unlikely to sacrifice his
z alliance with Meretz in
order to achieve that end, po-
litical observers said.
Meretz, which is in deep
crisis over the deportation
decision, is determined to
reassure its rank and file of
its resoluteness by walking
out the moment either
Tsomet or NRP walk in. A
large faction within Meretz
has deplored the expulsions.
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Israel Tourism
Hits New High
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Tourism to
Israel reached a record high
- of 1.75 million visitors in
\ 1992, according to Ministry
of Tourism figures released.
This was a 60 percent in-
crease over the previous
year. But 1991 was an ex-
ceptionally low tourism year
because of the Persian Gulf
War.
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ticipate 2 million travelers
/ will visit Israel next year.
But they note that the pre-
sent tourism infrastructure
cannot handle this quantity
of visitors.
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