In Israel, politics, like the struggle for survival, can be bitter. Charges and countercharges by the 18 rival parties were almost as explosive as the bombs which blasted a candidate's home, a political rally and an election meeting. But Election Day last week was a ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that let ter of the Hebrew...
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