Labor Party leader Shimon Peres presents his unity government to the Knesset — after 40 days of arduous inter-party negotiations which lasted right up to the very moment of the presentation.
The trial of 20 suspected members of a Jewish terrorist underground resumes in district court in Jerusalem after a two and a half month recess. The suspects are charged with a variety of attacks against Arabs in the occupied territories.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the second ranking official at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, is named as Israel’s new Ambassador to the United Nations, replacing Yehuda Blum, who stepped down after six years at the world organization.
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