The Labor opposition, sensing an opportunity, puts…

The Labor opposition, sensing an opportunity, puts up Rabin as their candidate for prime minister in the elections of June 1992.

He promises security but also flexibility, insisting that he will produce progress in the negotiations.

He also proposes that less be spent on settlements and more on help for Russian immigrants.

In a hard-fought election, the Labor Party wins a narrow advantage.

The new Labor government is committed to the implementation of Palestinian autonomy within a year.

Rabin establishes greater control in this premiership than in his earlier one by keeping the defense portfolio to himself and appointing a negotiating team that reports to him rather than to Peres, his foreign minister.

His coalition is delicately balanced between left and right and relies on a Sephardic religious party, Shas, to offset the strongly antireligious Meretz Party.