POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ehud Olmert, Yitzhak Navon, Yitzhak Rabin
7 Nov 2018
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Shamir & peres disagreed on many things, but had to work together. First intifada was mostly young people protesting with stones (throwing, slingshotting) Shas israeli political party, religious movement, party for the orthodox mizrahi people. Shas emerged in 1984 due to begin losing power, some of his coalition splintered off. Irony that netenyahu, the subordinate, was able to be pm not moshe arens: dan meridor another likud member and ehud olmert, meridor & olmert the "princes" of the likud party, "begin"s boys", they were generations long. Likud members: 1988 election: likud got 31. 1%, labor 30%, shas became number 3 party with 4. 7% I(cid:374)flatio(cid:374) so (cid:271)ad they (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t pri(cid:374)t the (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey fast e(cid:374)ough; hyperi(cid:374)flatio(cid:374) Orthodox movement that dates from the 18th century. In late 80s, schneerson was thought of as a "king-maker" in brooklyn; politicians of israel would go there to get his blessing.
