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 7th gkadetts 06- Vist, Coute, tfr doe cornet! DISCO CLASSES FALL 1979 1967-32327 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- See "THE LEADER" Today Morris Buick IS THE GUY IS THE BUY OPEN MON. & THURS. 9 P.M. WHERE EVERY DAY • IS SALE DAY W 7 Mile At Lodge X-Way JEWELERS 411/1" 342-7100 INC Super Sale on RINGS To 40% off all beautiful designer rings in 18K and 14K Gold Franklin Shopping Center 14 Mile & Middlebelt• 855-1730 MON., SAT., 10-6• THURS. 111 8 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. BURGLAR ALARMS World's Finest Home Alarm System Thousands of satisfied customers Ro c ., im ATA L Li:,!„. 7- CY SHEL s 255-1540 17534 W. 7 MILE, DETROIT LICENSED BY MICH. DEPT. 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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. Ofil of West Bloomfield in the Orchard Mall on Orchard Lake Road just 1/2 block north of Maple Road • 626-5516 • MON., TUE., WED., SAT, 10 to 6 p.m. THURS., FRI. 10 to 9 p.m. SUN. 12 to 5 p.