Former Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz was reported in critical condition at Hadassah Hospital today after suffering a massive coronary yesterday. He collapsed in Jerusalem while attending the funeral of David Horowitz, the former Governor of the Bank of Israel who died last Friday at the age of 80. Labor Knesset members Adi Amorai and Gad Yoacobi carried Rabinowitz to a nearby ambulance where he was given first aid on the way to the hospital.
Rabinowitz, 67, served as Finance Minister in the government headed by Premier Yitzhak Rabin, succeeding the late Pinhas Sapir Prior to that he was the mayor of Tel Aviv. One of the central figures in the Labor Party, Rabinowitz has been the Labor Alignment’s frontline spokesman against the present government under Premier Menachem Begin in the area of economic policy.
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