Concern is voiced in Israel over the accession to the Knesset of militant extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane of the Kach Party along with his strident anti-Arab rheoric and his threats to Arabs in Israel. He is later prevented by police from entering the Israeli Arab town of Umm El Fahm near Hadera where he plans to appeal to its 25,000 inhabitants to emigrate.
The newly elected 11th Knesset opens with a stem warning to the legislators from President Herzog to guard vigilantly against encroachments in Israel’s democracy.
Herzog gives Peres the task of forming a new government, stressing repeatedly the nation’s desire for a government of national unity.
Unemployment in Israel reaches a three-year record high as joblessness rises by 45 percent during the past nine months, from 27,000 at the beginning of the year to 85,000 now.
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