THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Municipal Elections Demonstrate Israel Trends (Continued from Page 1) 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 $ 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. WEDDINGS. BAR MITZVA S 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 SPITZER'S 10 Mile & Coolidge Dexter Davison Center Just Off the Press THE JEWISH CATALOG A Do It Yourself Kit $5. 50 SAY 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 (Continued from Page 2) 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 NEEDS MONEY FOR MEDICAL SUPPLIES GIVE! , - 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. RED MAGEN DAVID f-%GOWNS 29to '129 -- 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. 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