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Municipal Elections Demonstrate Israel Trends
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Gen. Lahat was elated over
his strong showing but re-
fused to discuss the possibil-
ity of setting up a new coali-
tion with himself as mayor.
Apparently he wants to wait
for the soldiers' vote which
could give him a clear ma-
jority. Failing that, however,
he could form a coalition with
t h e Independent Liberals
which would give him a 16-13
majority over a possible
Labor-NRP combination.
The unexpected setback
for Mayor Kollek, who was
running for a third term, was
attributed to the failure of
nost East Jerusalem Arabs
go to the polls. When the
polls closed at 11 p.m. Mon-
day, no more than 5,000 or 12
per cent of the 43,000 eligible
voters in East Jerusalem had
cast ballots. In the last muni-
cipal elections in 1969, 7,800
Arabs or 22 per cent of the
then 35,000 eligible voters
went to the polls. The East
Jerusalemites had been a
bastion of Mayor Kollek's
strength. But the 4,500 votes
they gave him Monday were
insufficient for even one ex-
tra seat in the City Council.
The poor Arab turnout, de-
spite perfect weather and in-
tensive efforts by all parties
to bring out the vote, was at-
tributed in large measure to
fear of retaliation by Pales-
tinian activists.
The presence of television
cameras at the polling sta-
tions in East Jerusalem ap-
parently scared many poten-
tial voters—former citizens of
Jordan who would be filmed
casting ballots in an Israeli
election.
Mayor Kollek, who had
headed a wall-to-wall coali-
tion which he dominated with
his Labor majority, will now
be forced to make substan-
tial concessions to the min-
ority religious parties in or-
der to establish a governing
bloc. The NRP increased its
seats from three to four, al-
though the Torah Religious
Front, headed by Agudist
Rabbi Menahem Porush, lost
one seat. Likud, Kollek's
chief opponent,- gained one
seat and now holds seven.
Two one-man factions—the
Independent Liberals and the
Merchants List—each won a
single council seat.
While the final results will
depend on the soldiers' vote,'
no substantial changes are
expected.
In Haifa, the third of Is-
rael's major cities, Alniogi
received 13 per cent more
votes than his party received
in the Knesset balloting. As
a former political disciple of
the late Mayor Abba Houshi,
whose strong hand has been
sorely missed, Almogi en-
joyed immense popularity
among the Haifa electorate.
The city has lagged behind
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in
recent years.
Haifa's importance as the
nation's largest seaport de-
clined with the opening of
the new port at Ashdod. New
construction has been mini-
mal, the Hadar business dis-
trict is the same as it was 20
years ago, and while tourist
hotels have proliferated in
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, only
one luxury hotel has gone up
on the famed Carmel. The
city also suffers a severe pol-
lution problem from the ad-
jacent Haifa Bay industrial
area of steel mills and oil
refineries.
Clearly, local issues out-
weighed national ones in the
municipal contest, not only in
Haifa but in other cities and
towns. The result was that in
some Labor strongholds, Li-
kud prevailed and in Likud
True democracy makes no
strongholds, Labor candidates inquiry about the color of
emerged victorious. Likud, the skin, or place of nativity.
however, won 'a smashing
victory. In Ramat Gan, sub-
WE CAN FIT YOU!
urb of Tel Aviv, where it had
previously been the dominant
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party, Dr. Israel Peled, the
Likud candidate, won 11 seats
LONG SHORT PATIO
in the Town Council wainst
STYLES SIZES 6 to 44
five for Labor candidate Res.
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Col. Gershon Rivlin.
PARTIES. SIZES 6 to 44
Labor took over from a
previous Likud majority in
Ashkelon. Likud incumbents
in Ashdod, Hadera and Re-
hovot retained their seats, as
did Labor incumbents in tra-
ditionally Labor towns.'
Orthodox Hit Hardest by Fuel Crisis in Britain
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As for the majority of Bri-
tain's 450,000 Jews, they are
affected no less than the gen-
eral population. The govern-
ment has made it clear that
the unprecedented fuel-sav-
ing measures were adopted
because of labor disputes in
the coal and power indus-
tries and not because of the
reduction of Middle East oil
production.
While it is possible for ob-
Thought-Control
servant Jews to work Sun-
I have sworn upon the altar
days, wages are double for
Sunday work. It is feared of 'God eternal hostility
that many enterprises run against every form of tyranny
by Orthodox Jews will not over the mind of man.
—Thomas Jefferson.
be able to survive.
Purely Commentary
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of the hijackers who claim so falsely to represent them.
It must continue if there is to be a true peace.
"I am afraid that the Russians know very little—and
want even less—of this kind of peace. Peace for them is
not an opportunity for people to know one' another better
and communicate with one another. The only peace they
are interested in is a peace which -leads to more Russian
influence in the Middle East, to more sales of Soviet arms
for Arab hard currency, and to more use of the Arab oil
weapon against countries of the West. That is no peace
but merely a stopping place en the road to another war."
While recognizing that the present is a time for con-
cessions; for cooperation in all tasks to establish accord
and even to bend backwards for peace, these aims cannot
be attained without close watch upon the tactics of one
of the major powers involved in the Middle East tragedy
— the Russian enemies of Israel who keep providing mili-
tary hardware that could have destroyed the Jewish state.
As Senator Jackson has indicated, while mouthing detente
slogans the Russians kept arming the Arabs to such a
degree that an unprotected nation could have been ex-
terminated. Another Holocaust was in the making due
primarily to the animosities toward Israel and Jewry that
stem from the former Czarist citadels that now harbor
similar anti-Semitic tendencies.
Expose of detente, as evidenced in the Panov case,
as analyzed by the cautious Senator Jackson, admonish
the American people not to be misled by energy crises
fakes, by Russian propaganda that may even instigate
anti-Semitism in democratic countries; by those who,
consciously or unconsciously, give credence to hatreds that
mark the anti-Israel campaigns.
Libertarians dare not slumber. Some are wide awake.
The two evidences just presented in exposing false detente
are marks of vision with regard to a situation that involves
Russian prejudices. Perhaps these revelations and their
presentations, forcefully, will serve also to deter the USSR
leaders from pursuing policies that would drag mankind
back into medievalism.
The Russian tricks have no limitations. The USSR
news agency Tass for example, had the audacity to call
Senator Jackson the "Senator from Israel." It was
reminiscent of the Arab attempts to distort truth and to
arouse enmities by referring to Israel as the 51st U. S.
state. Tass also resorted to another typical Muscovite
deviltry by intruding itself with a charge that the United
Jewish Appeal was "subversive and un-American." For
propagators of oppression to judge humanism- and Ameri-
canism in such fashion_ is not an unusual tactic in the
ranks of the descendants of pogromists.
Il
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sultation .with government of-1
ficials but there is little the
government can do.
The system of zoning —
staggering the work week so
that the working days are
different in different parts
of the UK — was designed
to prevent a breakdown in
the electricity supply. It is
therefore technically impos-
sible to make exemptions.
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LONDON JTA)—Orthodox
Jews are harder hit than
most Jews here by the eco-
nomic crisis because the
three-day working Week in-
troduced by the government.
beginning Jan. 1. in order to
save energy, will, in some
zones, fall on Thursday, Fri-
day and Saturday.
This means that observant
Jews, who normally close
their shops and business
establishments at noon Fri-
day during the winter
months will have only a day-
and-a-half work week. -
The Board of Deputies of
British Jews and the chief
rabbinate have been in con-
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