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n obscure drug trial that
took place 17 years ago has
become the focus of a public
storm that is sweeping Israel
with a peculiar ferocity.
Two weeks ago, few Israelis had
heard of Yechiem Ohana, a Tiberias
businessman
who was jailed
for 30 months
in the early
1980s for traf-
ficking in drugs
— and who
has been pro-
claiming his
innocence ever since.
The issues in the case, first pub-
lished last week by the Israeli daily
Ma'ariv, are intricate and complex,
and few people claim to fully under-
stand them.
But this has not stopped anyone
from taking sides.
Suddenly the country is divided
between those who sympathize with
Ohana's insistent demands for a retri-
al, and those who repeat the police
assertion that the man is a scoundrel,
a forger and a fraud.
Although the case may appear to be

just the latest scandal enveloping
Israel, the heated debate surrounding
it reflects, to an uncomfortable degree,
the fault lines that divide Israel politi-
cally.
Surfacing as Israel prepares for criti-
cal elections in May, the Ohana affair
has exposed a fractured society whose
deep divisions must worry all who
care about the fundamental strength
and cohesion of the Jewish state.
Those on
the political
left see
Ohana's case
as the tip of a
huge conspir-
acy designed
to compro-
mise the
Israeli justice
system and undermine the rule of law.
Those on the right see this interpre-
tation as pure paranoia on the part of
a beleaguered elite who are fearful of
the rise to power of the Sephardim,
immigrants and the Orthodox — in
short, of the coalition that supports
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
To observe that Israel is in the grip
of election fever, four months before
the May 17 balloting, would be an
understatement.
Ohana, a member of a well-known
and politically powerful family, claims

`A huge conspiracy'
or pure paranoia?

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In DC A Second Time

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or the second time in just
over a week, burglars broke
into the Washington office
of an American political con-
sultant hired to advise Israel's Labor
Party candidate for prime minister.
Files relating to Ehud Barak's cam-
paign were seized early this week after
intruders broke through a second
story window and disabled a new
alarm system that had been installed
in pollster Stanley Greenberg's office
after the first break-in, according to a
Labor campaign official.

F,

Last week's
burglary was •
quickly
dubbed in the
Israeli media
as "Israel's
Watergate,"
Ehud Barak
and several
Labor legisla-
tors immediately pointed to Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the
likely culprit.
Likud officials have called the alle-
gation an "obscenity," and following
this week's break-in, a spokeswoman