Israel’s population grew to 4.1 million in 1983 with the Jewish population growing by 1.7 percent last year compared to 1.6 percent in 1972, while the Arab population decreased 2.8 percent from 3.0, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Shamir receives a 27-member delegation of Israeli Arab leaders — 15 mayors of Arab towns, religious, education and social leaders — in what is described as the first such meeting held by the leader of a Likud government.
Some 500,000 Israelis, 12 percent of the population or one in every eight Israelis, are now living below the poverty line defined in Israel as having a monthly income of less than 14,000 Shekels (about $140) which is only 20 percent of the average salary in Israel.
A 28-year-old West Bank resident, Yona Avrushmi, is arrested in connection with the grenade murder of Peace Now activist Emil Grunzweig in Jerusalem last year.
Israeli security forces prevent an attempt to blow up Islamic shrines on the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem, discovering 18 Israel Army issued grenades and more than five kilograms of high explosives in an area near the plaza which is the site of the El Aksa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
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