Friday, August 24, 1919 19

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Stadium Construction Halted After Orthodox Protest

JERUSALEM — Con-
struction of a soccer
stadium and sports center
in Jerusalem has been
halted after months of
demonstrations by Or-
thodox Jews. The demon-
strators said the noise and
traffic for Saturday matches
would desecrate the Sab-
bath.
Meanwhile, five Agudat
Israel faction members
threatened to withdraw
from the Jerusalem munic-
ipal council's coalition if the

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construction was not stop-
ped.
The stadium is going up
just beyond the outer
fringes of the suburbs,
which include
Matersdorf, Sanhedria
Murhevet, Zanz, Itri and
Habad. The residents
argue that their streets
will inevitably become
thoroughfares for hun-
dreds of vehicles and
rowdy football fans each
Saturday afternoon.
Interior Ministry plan-
ners have recently
suggested to Mayor Teddy
Kollek two possible alterna-
tive sites for the stadium, in
the south of Jerusalem.
The municipality has al-
ready turned down one of
them as unsuitable and Kol-
lek has said he will refuse
now to consider the merits
of the other unless the
ultra-Orthodox cease their
violent, almost daily,
demonstrations against
him.
These demonstrations —
against the stadium and
against the Ramot Road
which connects the north-
ern suburb of Ramot to the
town proper and is used on
the Sabbath have grown
into a rowdy daily occur-

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rence now that the yeshivot
have recessed for the sum-
mer vacation.
The situation is com-
plicated by the fact that
the demonstrations —
and particularly the
weekly clashes between
stone-throwing zealots
and policemen on the
Ramot Road — are led by
ultra-Orthodox figures
who take no orders from
Aguda.
On the contrary, such
men as Rabbi Uri Blau and
Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, lead-
ers of the Naturei Karta,
brand Aguda as traitors.
Their activities constitute a
permanent pressure upon
Aguda to step up its own
anti-stadium activities.
Aguda's leader on the
town council is Rabbi
Shmuel Shaulson, but the
party's undisputed power
broker in the capital is
Knesseter Menahem
Porush. Porush warned that
if Aguda's walkout indeed
becomes final, the party will
be "a fighting opposition"
doing its utmost to bring
down Kollek.
Kollek himself has the di-
rect support of 16 of the
municipal council's 31
members. They are united
in a broad-based •grouping
named One Jerusalem and
ran in the 1977 elections es-
sentially on a "Support
Teddy" ticket. But Porush
claimed that several of
them are becoming dis-
enchanted with the mayor
and so Kollek could lose his
majority.
This would depend, of
course, however, on a
denial of support for Kol-

lek by the Likud faction
on the council. On the
stadium issue, at least,
Likud leader Yehoshua
Matza is every bit as keen
on building the facility in
Shuafat as is the mayor,
and thus it is difficult to
see them splitting over
this issue.
Nevertheless, impartial
observers predict that the
stadium may yet be moved
from Shuafat to a southern
Jerusalem site — because of
the _Orthodox pressures at
home and abroad, and be-
cause neither Kollek nor
Likud really want a run-
ning collision with
Jerusalem's large Orthodox
community if the problem
can be resolved satisfactor-
ily in an alternative way.

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Holocaust Names
Still Are Sought

BOSTON (JTA) — The
Holocaust Memorial Com-
mittee of the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Met-
ropolitan Boston is assist-
ing in a project to search for
the names of all Jews who
perished in the Holocaust so
that their names can be in-
scribed at Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem.
The task of gathering
"Pages of Testimony" (Daf
Yad) is being coordinated by
the Yad Vashem Authority.
Relatives and friends are
being asked to fill out a
separate page with all vital
information about each per-
son lost and to sign at the
bottom to show how he/she
is related to the victim(s).
The council, located at 72
Franklin St., Boston, Mass.,
02110, will send the com-
pleted forms to Yad Vas-
hem.

Release Sought
of War Criminal

AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
West German President
Carl Carstens has asked
Holland to release the last
two German war criminals
still imprisoned in Holland,
Ferdinand aus der Fuenten
and Franz Fischer. The
third war criminal Joseph
Kotaella died in Breda
prison last week.

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