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Israel weighs scrapping the Lavi fighter project
Israel faces a split on the costly Lavi program as Defense Minister Rabin and Finance Minister Nissim push to terminate the project. They warn continued Lavi would force cuts to higher priority arms, raise taxes by about 2000 per family, and rely more on U.S. F-16s amid strained 1980s inflation and budget constraints.
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Jerusalem
Israel
National Unity
Lebanon
Ze’ev Schiff
United States
Yitzhak Rabin
Labor
Moshe Nissim
Likud
Nissim
Treasury
Rabin
Washington
State Department
Pentagon
U.S
Charles Redman
George Shultz
Yitzhak Shamir
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
America
Weinberger
Shamir
Shiman Peres