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Israel, disillusioned with Yitzhak Rabin, is
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el Aviv — It must be
exciting to live in
America these days.
Here in Israel we read
about how Americans have
taken to Bill Clinton's plan
for recovery, how people are
starting to pull together —
and all we can do is sigh
with envy. We felt that way
once — only eight months
ago when we elected a new
leader. He also promised
economic renewal. It seems
like ages since then.
These memories came
back during a six-part
documentary on the Israel's
election campaign that
Israel Television just broad-
cast. There, once again, was
candidate Rabin, going into
the slums, the development
towns, the open-air markets
- into bedrock Likud ter-
ritory - and winning back to
the Labor Party the hearts of
the poor. He talked about
the need for jobs, about
demobilized soldiers and
young couples who couldn't
afford a place to live, about
the humiliation of not being
able to feed one's family. In a
manner of speaking, he, too,
swore to focus like a laser
beam on the economy.
Then, they loved him. Last
week, Mr. Rabin returned to
the slums, to the hellholes of
south Tel Aviv — Argazim,
Ezra, Kfar Shalem — and
found that he wasn't so
beloved anymore.
Residents yelled, "'You've
destroyed our souls,""Gaza
is better than this," and
"Liar."
The prime minister saw
the concrete-wood-and-tin
shacks where many people
live, the caved-in roofs, the
cracked walls, the furniture
ruined by the winter rains.
They looked just like they
had after last winter's
storms.
"I'm shocked," he said.
"These aren't conditions for
human beings to live in. I
promise to help you get out
of here fast."
"Promises, promises," said
a resident. "Thirty years
we've been hearing them
and nothing changes. No
doubt this visit is supposed
to shut us up for another
couple of years."
The next day, the prime

minister reportedly told
union officials that some
homes in Khan Yunis, one of
the worst refugee camps in
Gaza, were in better shape
than some places he saw in
south Tel Aviv. He would
improve the situation, he
said. He didn't say how.
Unemployment, now at 11
percent, has also worsened
since Mr. Rabin's election.
The new minister of labor
and social affairs, Ora
Namir, is about as bullish on
the need for jobs as any
Israeli, but the best idea
she's come up with is to force
the jobless to work on ar-
chaeological digs and
forestry campaigns in return
for unemployment benefits.
This is designed, she says, to
get them out of their
lethargy.
She admits that these are
not permanent jobs, but
there won't be any great
number of new, permanent

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Israelis felt that
we were starting
to pull together
only eight months
ago when we
elected a new
leader.

jobs for another couple of
years, when new highways
and other public works pro-
jects get underway. In the
meantime, all the
unemployed can look for-
ward to is makework.
Israel's boosters, in-
vestment-seekers, and brave
new capitalists point to the
bright side of the economy —
the annual 6-7 percent
growth rate, the steady rise
in exports, the great corn-
eback in tourism, the single-
digit inflation for the first
time in almost 20 years.
They like the trend the
Israeli economy has taken in
the last few years - produc-
tivity, privatization,
automation, less govern-

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