Rabin Beats Shamir in Popularity Poll
<i> Reuters</i>
JERUSALEM —
Labor Party leader Yitzhak Rabin is more popular among voters than Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, according to a Gallup poll published Friday in advance of Israel’s June 23 national election.
A separate opinion poll in the daily Yedioth Ahronoth showed neither the Labor opposition nor Shamir’s Likud party would win a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament, even with the support of their usual allies.
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