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less ideological than before, and
the activists of earlier times are
being replaced by lawyers and
businessmen. "You have a move-
ment from an ideological to an
economic perspective of public
service," Ezrahi says.
The Netanyahu administra-
tion is the culmination of this
trend, Mr. Ezrahi maintains.
"Netanyahu brought in an oper-
ational code that was highly in-
fluenced by the values of the
privatesector, and not by ideal-
ism."
One of the modern features of
Israeli corruption is the presence
of black-hat Orthodox political
groups, particularly Shas, specif-
ically Mr. Deri. There were al-
ways religious politicians in
Israel, but only about a decade
ago did their electoral power be-
come sizeable.
The Orthodox in general see
the state as a "milk cow" for their
synagogues and yeshivas, said
one analyst. He added that La-
bor and Likud leaders "cultivate
their leaders, offering them
greater and greater temptations,"
which inevitably leads to cor-
ruption.
Ironically, 1990 marked the
genesis of a movement for good
government. Setting it off was
Yitzhak Shamir's and Shimon
Peres' courting of Orthodox rab-
bis in their battle for the prime
ministership. Hundreds of thou-

sands of Israelis protested. The
chief result was the passage of
a law for the direct election of the
prime minister, aimed at cur-
tailing haredi power. The goal
clearly was not achieved.
The protests also spurred the
creation of powerful citizen
watchdog groups such as the
Movement for Quality Govern-
ment. It has helped to bring
about campaign finance reform
and argued the public interest in
corruption cases through nu-
merous Supreme Court petitions,
such as the Deri case.
Because of that court decision,
Mr. Deri is not a minister in the
.Netanyahu government. Never-
theless, he remains more power-
ful than most members of
Netanyahu's cabinet. As leader
of Shas, now the third largest
party in the Knesset, Mr. Deri
can still make and break gov-
ernments.
The current investigation is to
determine if Mr. Deri, with the
help of Messrs. Appel and Lieber-
man, forced the appointment of
Mr. Bar-On on the Netanyahu
government in the expectation
that as attorney general Mr. Bar-
On would give Mr. Deri a gener-
ous plea bargain.
If the Bar-On affair ends with
indictments and a political
shake-up, the hope is that it will
have a cleansing effect on the
whole system. ID

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PALMS page 124

he recent White House
meetings between Presi-
dent Clinton and Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu produced little of the
glowing mutual admiration and
affection that characterized re-
lations between the president
and the former Labor adminis-
tration.
And that may be good news for
the U.S.-Israel relationship.
The visit signaled a new ma-
turity in relations between the
Clinton White House and an Is-
raeli government that officials
here regarded with fear when
. Mr. Netanyahu wrested the
prime minister's job from Shimon
Peres in May.
The results • may include a
more realistic, more stabile rela-
tionship that could make it eas-
ier for Mr. Netanyahu to move
forward with the next phases of
the peace talks — which will be
full of controversial, difficult de-
cisions.

This was Mr. Netanyahu's
fourth visit to Washington in less
than a year; the initial meetings
were characterized by a palpable
suspicion and insecurity on both
sides.
Mr. Clinton, still reeling from
the death of Yitzhak Rabin and
the defeat of Mr. Peres, worried
that Mr. Netanyahu's campaign
rhetoric reflected a desire to undo
the Oslo peace process. Mr. Ne-
tanyahu's early moves as prime
minister, including his decision
to open a second entrance to an
archaeological tunnel outside the
Temple Mount, fueled those sus-
picions; so did the drawn-out ne-
gotiations over Hebron.
Mr. Netanyahu, too, entered
the relationship with justifiable
uneasiness.
Mr: Clinton, after all, had yin-
tully endorsed his opponent, a
glaring breach of diplomatic pro-
tocol. There was every reason to
believe that the U.S. adminis-
tration would pressure Israel to

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