H
DAVID LANDAU
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jerusalem
s Israel plunges into an
election campaign, the
country is struggling to
find
the right balance
between being a
boisterous
democracy and a
:,-society still trau-
matized by the
1995 assassina-
tion of Yitzhak
Rabin.
Within days after campaigning
began, a debate welled up over the
-
acceptable limits of public discourse
as Israelis react — sometimes with
barely disguised rancor — to the can-
didates seeking their vote.
The issue came rushing to the fore
last week after centrist candidate
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak made a cam-
paign stop at a market in Tel Aviv.
- Considered
a favorite to
unseat Prime
Minister
Binyamin
Netanyahu
even before he
announced his
candidacy, the former army chief of
staff found himself jostled and
threatened as he made his way
through the market. One heckler
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