Trouble looms, despite Israel's accomplishments on the…

Trouble looms, despite Israel's accomplishments on the diplomatic front, as the civil war in Lebanon allows an increasingly well-armed PLO to raid Israel's northern border.

Israel has also begun to fear a military buildup in Iraq, especially its potential for producing nuclear weapons.

Nor is the cabinet happy.

Moshe Dayan resigns from it in anger over Begin's plan to assert Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank area, which is legally still part of Jordan.

Dayan, who as Begin's foreign minister had been one of the chief architects of the Camp David Accords, charges that the prime minister does not want to settle the Palestinian issue.

The Begin government has also been much less successful in its domestic policies, and the economy, after a brief recovery in 1978­79, enters another inflationary spiral.