A climactic debate between Premier Yitzhak Shamir and Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres who hopes to replace him, will be televised in two weeks, on or about July 10, when the Knesset election campaign is at its peak. The voters go to the polls July 23.
An agreement was reached today between Ronni Milo and Gideon Gadot of Likud and the Labor Alignment’s Yossi Saird and Yisrael Peleg on the ground rules of the half hour confrontation.
Each of the candidates for Prime Minister will be asked the same five questions and each will have 15 minutes for their answers. A moderator, acceptable to both parties, has not yet been selected nor has the subject matter of the questions been decided.
The debate will be the first such encounter between Peres and Shamir, although both appeared separately on French television earlier this month to discuss election issues. Peres debated former Premier Menachem Begin before the 1981 elections.
Meanwhile, the Labor Alignment announced today that the popular entertainment group, Hagashah Hahiver would be featured in its first television campaign broadcast tonight. Actress Eyti Shiloni will interview Peres, former President Yitzhak Navon and former Premier Yitzhak Rabin.
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