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Cynicism appears to rule the day among
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LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

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e were sitting at a bat
mitzvah in Nesher, a
small town outside of
Haifa, the night before
the local elections. It was, by to-
day's standards, an average
middle-class Israeli affair —
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it. Listen, everybody looks after
his own interests, there's noth-
ing else," the shopkeeper said.
Up and down Tel Aviv, these
were the sorts of endorsements
you were hearing for Mr. Milo;
he's "slick," he's "polished," he's
a "fox." Even in his own adver-
tising spot, one woman-on-the-
street said the following to
explain why she was voting for

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ly with computer-aided special
effects.
The talk turned to the elec-
tions and the man sitting next
to me, a bank clerk, one of the
amcha, or common people,
asked how it looked in Tel Aviv.
"Roni Milo [the eventual win-
ner] seems to be taking it," I
said.
"Well of course," said the
man. "He's a polished politician,
he's experienced at this. Those
are the kind of politicians we
need — sly ones who know how
to get things done."
It wasn't as though this was
the first time I had heard such
political commentary during the
election season. The guy who
runs the corner grocery store
near my home, a Yitzhak Rabin
supporter, nearly a peacenik,
said he too was throwing in
with Mr. Milo. "If Milo wins I'll
be in very good shape. We've got
an agreement, I can't talk about

him: "He has the ability to ma-
nipulate, and that's what it
takes."
The "ability to manipulate" -
this is how you win on the
"character issue" in Tel Aviv.
And evidently not just in Tel
Aviv. Four incumbent mayors
are headed for trial on corrup-
tion charges, and three of them
won re-election, while the fourth
is going into a runoff.
Something has changed here.
Only a couple of years ago, cor-
ruption was a serious issue in
Israeli politics, maybe the most
serious. "Crooks go home!" was
the slogan of the time. Some
100,000 people demonstrated
one night in Tel Aviv against
the deals the Orthodox were
wheedling out of the govern-
ment, and 650,000 people
signed petitions to change the
electoral system so this sort of
thing wouldn't keep happening.
The Likud was beaten over