NETANYAHU IN KNESSET IN JERUSALEM TRIES NOT TO YAWN, 1997-10-27 (photo)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempts to restrain a yawn as he looks up at the gallery in the Knesset (Parliament) on October 27. Foreign Minister David Levy is at left, and Agriculture and Environment Minister Rafael Eitan is at right. Amidst considerable heckling from the opposition parties Netanyahu delivered the opening speech, summing up his leadership, saying, "There is nothing easy in what we are trying to do. There is nothing easy because the reality is hard...this region is full of horrors. This is not some Disneyland. This is a hard region. a region in which a good portion of our neighbours are still not really committed to our existence. MIDEAST