km 16, 1978

ME DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Elections for Chief Rabbinate May Have to Be Postponed

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Religious Affairs Minister
Aharon Abu Hatzeira said

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that the elections to the
Chief Rabbinate, scheduled
for July 12, may have to be
postponed again while
legislation is adopted to cor-
rect shortcomings in the
present election law.
The elections were post-
poned once before this year
at the behest of Abu Hat-

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zeira who claimed his
ministry needed more time
to prepare for them.
The possible new post-
ponement was immediately
denounced by supporters of
Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef who backs
Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli
against the incumbent

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Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi
Shlomo Goren. They
charged a maneuver by the
National Religious Party
(NRP) to ensure Goren's
re-election.
A total of 139 of the 150
electors have been cho-
sen to date. Ten more
must be nominated by
Abu Hatzeira of the NRP
and one by the Chief
Chaplain of the armed
forces.
Goren's supporters say
the charges are "nonsense"
and claim that Goren was
assured of reelection even
before the nomination of the
last 11 electors. But Yis-
raeli has emerged as a seri-
ous challenger who repor-
tedly enjoys the support of
much of the NRP rank-and-
file and of Yosef as well.
Yosef, who is running for
re-election unopposed, has
long been at odds with
Goren and apparer‘tly
would like to see him re-
placed.
Meanwhile,
Judge
Yaacov Bazak, chairman of
the elections committee,
has proposed changes in the
election law which, as it
now stands, divides the
electoral body 50-50 bet-
ween Ashkenazim and
Sephardim.

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Dutch Anti-Boycott Activists
Beaten; Blacklist Scored

AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
Two members of the re-
cently established Dutch
Anti-Arab Boycott Commit-
tee were beaten up last
week after they asked ques-
tions about compliance with
Arab boycott demands at a
shareholders meeting of a
company doing business in
Saudi Arabia.
The assault' occurred
after the two men left the
meeting where their ques-
tions drew an angry reac-
tion from some of the
shareholders. The assail-
ants were not identified.
The anti-boycott group
recently purchased small
amounts of stock in Dutch
firms with contracts in Arab
countries. This permits
them to ask questions relat-
ing to the firms' treatment
of boycott demands. Two
weeks ago, they attended a
meeting of the Ballast
Nedam Co.
The men who were as-
saulted last week had at-
tended a shareholders'
meeting of the Ogem Co.
which has contracts for
major construction work
in Saudi Arabia.
In Montreal, Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott
Trudeau, declaring that
"there are only two coun-
tries in the world, the Un-
ited States and Canada,
who have adopted a firm
policy in regard to Arab
boycotts," pledged that
Canada will abide by that

policy and stated that any
kind of discrimination by
Canadian companies in
compliance with Arab
boycott demands is "repug-
nant to our ethnics."
Trudeau addressed the
closing dinner of the 30th
United Jewish Appeal in
Toronto. He promised to
turn the public spotlight on
any company submitting to
Arab boycott requests and
declared that the Canadian
government would refuse
assistance to such com-
panies, but he evaded a
suggestion by Rabbi
Gunther Plaut, president of
the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress, that a legislative
stand be taken against par-
ticipants in the boycott.

JCCouncil Backs
Labor Law Bill

The Jewish Community
Council, in action taken re-
cently by its executive
committee, has endorsed
the Labor Law Reform Bill,
now being debated in the
U.S. Senate.
In communications to
Michigan Sen. Donald
Riegele and Robert Griffin,
the Council urged the legis-
lators to vote for cloture to
cut off the filibuster on the
bill, to vote down all cripl-
ing amendments to the bill
and to keep the measure be-
fore the Senate until debate
is done and to vote for its
final passage.

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