Nearly 500,000 persons gather into a grassy area surrounding the orchestral shell in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park for an open air concert by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to mark Tel Aviv’s 75th birthday.
The Supreme Court reverses the Central Elections Committee’s ban on the participation of two political parties — the ultra nationalist Kach Party and the Progressive List for Peace, a coalition of Arabs and Israelis — in the July 23 Knesset elections.
With the economy in dire straits and inflation running at an annual rate of nearly 300 percent, Israel’s labor scene erupts into a wave of strikes and work stop pages as tens of thousands of public employes scramble for wage hikes and other benefits before the July 23 elections.
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