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The Likud failed to persuade the immi- grants that it could do a better job than Labor, but Bibi Ne- tanyahu is a popular leader, and if he can find a way to commu- nicate effectively with them, I think he can get their votes." Shlomo Maslawi, a Tel Aviv Sephardi activist, said he's hear- ing exactly the same opinions from his people. "There's been no improve- ment. The jobs open are the low- paid ones left by the Palestinians, in construction, in agriculture, and the Russian im- migrants are getting priority in hiring," Mr. Maslawi said. "Peo- ple are saying they made a mis- take voting Labor, and they're angry; they're turning to Ne- tanyahu because he's the rising power." The issue of peace took a back seat to jobs and safety in Labor's campaign, but since Mr. Rabin came to power, it has been his main focus, and this has cost him. The peace negotiations ap- pear to be going nowhere — which is where they ended up under the Likud - but there is some public perception that now, unlike before, Israel is making concessions to the Palestinians and Syrians, and getting noth- ing in return. Even if virtually all of the "concessions" seem to be only about procedural nitpicking, one of them is serious business — Is- rael is now on the record as ready to give up at least part, maybe a big part, of the Golan Heights in return for peace with Syria. This is a card Mr. Rabin kept face-down during the campaign, and the Golan settlers, who used to be a strong pocket of Labor support, have turned furiously against him, demonstrating up_ and down the country, and win- ning the sympathy of many La- bor voters. The Golan settlers have be- come the spearhead of the right- wing opposition's noisy, street-level campaign to depict the government as "leftist" and "surrender ist." Interestingly, this so-called "leftist" government's three most successful, popular moves — the December expulsion of the Hamas activists, the March do- sure of the territories, and the arrests, culminating in early June, of 124 of Hamas's worst killers — were more boldly K "hawkish" than anything the Likud ever managed during the intifada. But labels have a way of sticking. To mark the anniversary of the Rabin "upheaval," the daily newspaper Ma'ariv assigned a team of reporters and editors to examine the government's per- formance to date. It also com- missioned a public opinion poll to gauge the administration's popularity. Ma'ariv, the most rightward- leaning of the Hebrew dailies, K came to the conclusion that the government, on the whole, was performing well, but, as the poll showed, the Israeli people were unimpressed. The survey found 33.8 percent graded the government's per- formance "bad" or "very bad," while only 24.6 percent called it "good" or "very good." The re- mainder termed it "average." Furthermore, 50.4 percent thought the government should fall. And perhaps most telling- ly, 71.4 percent said the Rabin administration "had not fulfilled the expectations placed upon it." Ma'ariv's verdict: 'The results on the ground are positive: things are being done, accom- plishments are being made, there is potential. But what ex- ists on the ground is not seen by the public." Evidently, when you're told to anticipate an upheaval, and all you get is a tremor, it can feel N like nothing at all has moved. 111 Activity Banned On Yarkon River Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Health Ministry has banned fishing, boating and camp- ing on the Yarkon River, Israel's only major river apart from the Jordan, following the discovery of thousands of dead fish in the waterway. Experts examining the area have so far been unable to find the source of an ap- parent sewage spill polluting the narrow river, which was converted only months ago into a recreation area after a thorough dredg- ing and cleanup operation following years of neglect. The Yarkon rises near Petach Tikvah and flows into the sea in north Tel Aviv, where residents have been complaining about the smell from the dead and rot- ting fish.