Slowly but surely, with great perseverance, Cabinet Ministers have succeeded in ignoring and nullifying their own decision not to go on overseas trips until the economic situation in the country has improved. According to a report in Maariv, the government has approved a number of trips for government officials.
These include a visit by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the United States for talks with Administration leaders and for appearances before Jewish organizations; Minister-Without-Portfolio Moshe Arens is scheduled to go on a fund-raising trip; Minister of Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon is scheduled to visit North America and then Latin America on Ministry errands; and Minister-Without-Portfolio Yosef Shapira was invited by the Jewish Agency Immigration and Absorption Department to go on an aliya-promoting mission in England.
Deputy Premier David Levy is presently in the U.S.; and Education and Culture Minister Yitzhak Navon, Transport Minister Haim Corfu, and Science and Development Minister Gideon Patt have just returned from overseas trips.
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