JERUSALEM: FOREIGN MINISTER DAVID LEVY SAYS HIS RESIGNATION WAS A RESULT OF HIS TREATMENT BY SENIOR LIKUD CABINET MEMBERS

Record ID: 190137

  • Title: JERUSALEM: FOREIGN MINISTER DAVID LEVY SAYS HIS RESIGNATION WAS A RESULT OF HIS TREATMENT BY SENIOR LIKUD CABINET MEMBERS
  • Date: 30th March 1992
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (MARCH 30, 1992) 1. GV PAN/GVS/CU/SV LEVY ENTERS ROOM FOR MEETING, TAKES SEAT AS MEETING GET UNDERWAY, JOURNALISTS LOOKING ON (6 SHOTS) 0.37 2. CU REUVEN RIVLIN SPEAKING AS NOTED (ENGLISH) 1.07 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 2, RIVLIN: "MY IMPRESSION TODAY FROM MR LEVY WAS THAT NOTHING CAN BE DONE ANYMORE, ER, AT LEAST NOT FROM HIS SIDE. HE'S NOT BLAME - BLACKMAILING - ANYONE, HE'S STANDING AWAY, HE'S READY TO RESIGN UNLESS, PROBABLY, THE PRIME MINISTER WILL FIND ANY KIND OF SOLUTION TO GET INTO HIS HEART, AND TO CONVINCE HIM THAT THERE ARE WAYS TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE PARTIES IN THE LIKUD PARTY." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 14th April 1992 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
  • Reuters ID: LVA2HK44S9S08E8ZY4NRGZMKOOA6
  • Story Text: Israel's Foreign Minister, David Levy, told the Foreign Affairs and Defence committee on Monday (March 30) that his resignation on Sunday was a result of the treatment he had received from Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defence Minister Moshe Arens.

    Sunday's surprise announcement by Levy came just three months before a general election scheduled for June, underlining divisions within the ruling Likud party between Jews like Levy of Sephardic, or Middle Eastern, origins and those of European lineage.

    Committee member Reuven Rivlin, a follower of Levy, said that the Foreign Minister was not blackmailing anyone with his resignation. He added that it was Shamir's responsibility to find a way to breach the divisions within the ruling coalition.


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