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anniversary have been beset by power
struggles, egos, money that doesn't
appear and a general organizational
breakdown.
Peled, explaining to a Knesset com-
mittee why he resigned, said the Finance
Ministry, at Prime Minister Netanyahu's
demonstrative urging, budgeted some
$70 million for the jubilee events. But
afterward, Finance Minister Ydacov
Ne'eman put him straight. "Come on,
you know it's not serious, there's no
intention of giving you [some $70 mil-
lion]. It's all a fiction," Peled quoted
Ne'eman as having told him.
According to Moda'i, the actual bud-
get for the jubilee events is about half of
what Peled was "promised." But accord-
ing to some government officials, the
real, actual budget is about half again of
what Moda'i thinks it is.
But even $18 million sounds like too
much when people are losing their jobs,
when the cost of health care and other
basics is out of the reach of more and
more Israelis, and when the government
is loathe to spend money on social bene-
fits because it wants, above all, to keep
the budget deficit and the inflation rate
down.
Weizman is by no means the only
public figure who's made this point.
"Let's cancel the celebrations; the people
aren't happy," said Knesset Member
David Tal of the Shas (Sephardi ultra-
Orthodox) party. He recommended that
the jubilee budget be spent instead on
medicines for the sick. Knesset Member
Nissim Zvili of Labor added, "You can't
force people to smile when they're
unhappy."
So as Israel enters its 50th year, the
country is not festive. Nobody is happy
with any of the politicians, in power and
in opposition. The economy is sinking.
The peace process is cause for nothing
but anxiety. Israel comes in for sus-
tained, often harsh criticism from the
Western nations, and worse from the
Arab world. At home, Israeli society is
split every which way: left vs. right,
Orthodox vs. non-Orthodox, rich vs.
poor.
But there will be a party. There will
be candlelighting, parades, concerts,
exhibitions and military spectacles of
some as-yet-undetermined sort. Israel's
50th anniversary arrives on April 30,
and before, during and after this date,
the country will be in the grip of ...
something.
Jubilee chairman Moda'i has set a
modest goal for the celebrations: "To
bring a little smile to people's lips."
From what everyone on all sides are say-
ing, he's got his work cut out for him-
self H

