8—Friday, September 2, 1966 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Mapam, Iteligious Party Clash Over Sapies Austerity Program JERUSALEM — The coalition partners of the Mapai-Ahdut Avoda allignment in Israel's government held their first full-dress joint meeting on Finance Minister Pin- has Sapir's hotly debated austerity program for Israel's economic troubles and, at the end of the meeting, all of the parties were as deadlocked as ever. The meeting was attended by members of Premier Levi Eshkol's Mapai Party and its coalition part- ner, Mapam, National Religious Party, and independent Liberals. Ten cabinet members, including Premier Eshkol and senior econo- mic ministers, also attended the meeting. Despite the fact that no deci- sion was reached, a spokesman for the premier's office express- ed the hope Tuesday that the plan will be presented to the cab- inet meeting Sunday. The principal clash Monday night was reported to be between Mapam, which holds the Sapir austerity plan to bear too heavily on the wage-earner, and the Na- tional Religious Party and Liber- als, who have urged greater ef- ficiency as the key to Israel's mounting inflation and worsening trade imbalance. The Sapir plan calls for higher taxes. drastic curtailments in cost- of-living allowances to workers, penalties for inefficient producers and incentives to efficient indus- tries. The alignment partners holding a position between Map- am and the NRP and the Liberals are split on aspects of the plan. Eshkol voiced confidence Mon- day that Mapam would go along, with the Mapai-Ahdut Avoda al- ignment in supporting the auster- ity program. The premier expressed optim- ism over the program at the found- ing meeting of the alignment's ideological youth circle. In reply to a question at the meeting, how- ever, Eshkol dismissed a proposal that, in view of the economic cris- is, the time had come for a govern- ment broader than the present coalition. During the weekend, agree- ment was reached within the al- ignment on one major point of difference. The. Mapai-Ahdut Avoda econo- mic committee decided to rec- commend to the Histadrut, Israel's labor federation, that only half of the cost-of-living allowance in- crease, forthcoming as a result of expected price rises, be paid in 1967 and 1968 to those earning more than 400 pounds ($133) a month. Under the compromise proposal, persons earning less than that minimum figure would be compensated in full for all price increases from now on. While the original austerity prog- ram as proposed by Finance Min- ister Pinhas Sapir sought to eli- minate all cost-of-living wa starting next year, this was s oppos- ed by the Histadrut labor leaders. Ahdut Avoda, however, continued Monday to press its demands that the economic program should in- clude a compulsory levy of a loan of 100,000,000 pounds ($33,300,000) Jews in Germany Urge Vigilance Against New Hate BONN (JTA)—Vigilance against "inhuman anti-Semitic acts" was called for in a pre-New Year statement issued here by the Cen- tral Council of Jews in Germany. The council called on all to be alert against a new hate campaign. Atheism Atheism is the result of igno- rance and pride - of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer property. :— Jeremy, Collier. " I on self-employed persons in the upper income brackets, and also increase the direct taxation of this category as well as of corporations. Sapir opposes these measures. con- tending that they would seriously hamper the development of busi- ness in Israel. The remaining coalition part- ners — the National Religious Party and the Independent Lib- erals—while protesting what they termed "neglect and lack of con- sideration" for their views on the part of the alignment in de- veloping the economic program, generally support the broad out- lines of the plan. Monday, meanwhile, the first ef- fects of the program began to be felt by the Israeli consumer as a number of everyday items, such as eggs and other farm products, increased in price. Dairy products, consumed by Israelis in - large quantities, are also due to rise in price, along with soap, oil fats and cotton products. Most increases averaged about 20 per cent. AT UNION TIRE ... No Sterility Because We refuse to be drawn into the quagmire of chain-store coldness where the value of human dignity is often questionable! You won't'find an atmosphere of sterility, slickness or sameness of a chain store—but you will find real hospitality, ability and characters. 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