The remarkable success of Israel's brilliant Entebbe…
July 1976 CE
Former general Rabin, new to politics, finds it difficult to dominate a cabinet in which his chief rival, Peres, is defense minister, and few others owe him any political allegiance.
Even before the October 1973 War, the Labor Party had been hampered by internal dissension, persistent allegations of corruption, ambiguities and contradictions in its political platform, and by the disaffection of Oriental Jews.
Labor's failure to prepare the country for the war had further alienated a large segment of the electorate.
