Letter from Israel: Political Trends Under the Begin Regime

Letter from Israel: Political Trends Under the Begin Regime

Israel’s political and social life is still reeling from the impact of two seemingly contradictory developments unforeseen by even the most knowledgeable pundits: first, the end of 30 years of Labor’s hegemony in the 1977 elections, and second, Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem leading to the Camp David agreements and the Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt. That the Israeli leader who signed what has been from Israel’s point of view a very ...