THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 20 Friday, July 11, 1901 Mayor Teddy Kollek's Vision of Jerusalem Remains Intact By VICTOR BIENSTOCK Teddy Kollek stands in relation to Jerusalem as Fiorello La Guardia, years ago, stood in relation to New York and Dick Whittington of legend to the city of Lon- don. Kollek lives and breathes Jerusalem 24 hours in the day and he knows the stones and monuments and people of his city as well as any man alive. During his 16 years as J mayor — first of the "New City" beyond the walls, and then, after 1967, of the re- TEDDY KOLLEK united Jerusalem — Kollek Jerusalem is concerned, a has won the respect and admiration if not the love romantic, a dreamer and a and trust of most of his fel- hardboiled realist. He has low Jerusalemites and the visions of what Jerusalem grudging respect of the Is- will be and a down-to-earth raeli bureaucracy which, knowledge of the tortuous like bureaucracies ev- road that must be travelled erywhere would emesh to reach his goal. He is as the city in fantastic coils of aware of Arab hostility to redtape and grandiose de- Israel as anyone in the velopment plans which Prime Minister's Office but would deprive it of many of he is determined not to let it the qualities that make interfere with the peaceful Jerusalem unique in the progress of his city. He knows, because of world. Teddy Kollek is, as far as his mayoral role, the problems of getting Mos- lems, Christians (of 30 different sects) and Jews to live together in har- mony within the city limits. He rejects the idea that this is an impossible goal but warns at the same time that it cannot be reached in a year or two. Kollek's views on the fu- ture of Jerusalem and his appraisal of what has been accomplished there are set down in an article in the summer issue of Foreign Af- fairs, the quarterly journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. Fundamentally, these views do not differ greatly from those he enunciated in the same journal four years ago on the 10th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, nor do they show any lessen- ing of the passion for the city he displayed some 40 years ago when he escorted a brash American reporter around his Jerusalem to be sure he saw what he should see to feel the essence and spirit of the golden city. FREEDOM CLEANERS 24681 Coolidge Hwy 1/2 block S. of 10 Mile 545-1300 111111111115111111111111 PLAIN SLACKS & SKIRTS 1 1 •1 39 REG. PRICE $1.95 Must be presented with incoming orders Cash & Carry Only, Limit 10 1 ili. Freedom Cleaners Coupon Expires 7-31-81 I •111111111011•1111111•1111IMMIIIMINIIINIMI11111 IIMIIIMIONINION•111•11111 1116 • 111••• ossomassetleamissuatlobsw• 1 - ' 011tawas masmwesmswomswommesassam . . SAVE I . . . . 1 25% 1 USE THIS COUPON ON ANY INCOMING DRAPERY OR DRY CLEANING ORDER. 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Also, importantly, he and today, it will be a very long superfluous time before any Arab leader Jerusalem's citizens, Arab notes in this arrangement of or ruler of stature may be and Jew alike, he says, have powers, "legal guarantees for religious and other civil willing to negotiate, let largely ignored it. liberties could be under- "Israel is determined to alone sign, a document on a united Jerusalem with a maintain a united taken by the city in matters Jewish majority — no mat- Jerusalem as the capital for which the Knesset might ter what concessions Israel of Israel," Kollek affirms, find it difficult to legislate." may offer on such issues as "while continuing to give The problem of independent control of the the Arabs and the var- Jerusalem, Kollek reminds Muslim holy places or local ious religious com- us in this Foreign Affairs autonomy for the city's munities the wide free- article, "must also be seen dom of speech which is in the context of the compli- Arab residents. "Therefore," he stresses, reflected in Jerusalem by cations faced by urban cen- throughout the world. "what Israel must do in the only free Arab press ters Problems of heterogeneous in the Middle East; free- Jerusalem is very clear. We must recognize that dom of religion; freedom cities can never be solved Jerusalem will be among of education, and free- easily and quickly whatever the last items on the agenda dom of access and their character; not in the great American cities, not as the Middle East's prob- movement which results in Brussels, not in Belfast, lems are solved, and we annually in the visits of must strive in the mean- 150,000-200,000 Arabs not in Beirut." His own time to make the quality of from countries still at vision of the future structure of Jerusalem — life for all people in the city war with Israel." President Sadat's pro- one which he has advanced as attractive as we possibly posals for a "divided sover- on several previous occa- can." When he wrote his 1977 eignty" cannot work, Kollek sions — is for a "network of Foreign Affairs article, warns, and "the barbed wire boroughs modelled after the Kollek emphasized the and mines would soon re- boroughs of London." principles that guided his turn." The Vatican's pres- He quotes proudly the administration of the sure for internationaliza- assessment by Prof. Daniel city: free access to all tion of the city no longer has J. Elazar, head of the Insti- holy places and their ad- viability, Kollek asserts, tute of Local Government at ministration by their reminding us that Roman Bar-Ilan University, that adherents; measures to Catholics are only one of 30 "Jerusalem has done as well assure the unhindered to discuss the future with or better than any city in development of the Arab local Arab leaders, Kollek the modern world in the de- way of life in the Arab reports, because of their velopment of means to gov- sections of the city and to fear of Palestine Liberation ern heterogeneous popula- ensure Moslems and Organization retaliation. tions." Kollek, ever the op- Christians alike "a prac- Arabs are afraid, for the tical religious, cultural same reason, to participate timist and realist, finds and commercial gover- significantly in the munici- that "people of goodwill nance over their daily pal administration but, are continually seeking lives"; equal governmen- nevertheless, about 40 per- to solve Jerusalem's tal., municipal and social cent of the Arab male elec- problems peacefully and services for all parts of torate did vote in the last constructively." Until the day comes, he believes the city and continuing municipal elections. "the most positive course During the interim, until efforts to increase cul- tural, social and eco- there is agreement on the we can continue to follow nomic contacts among status of Jerusalem, Kollek is that of deepening and the various elements of wants government action to expanding the present the city while preserving assure the Arab citizens of pattern of practical yet the cultural and even the the city that they won't be harmonious coexistence national identity of each forced out and that they that has been established won't be submerged in a in Jerusalem with so group. These princples, he says Jewish majority (although much painstaking care now, "have proved them- he points out a fact not often and in the face of seem- selves well and continue as remembered that ingly insurmountable the basis for our policies, Jerusalem has had a Jewish odds. "In this way, we can not thriving independent of the majority for the past 140 only make the long interim international or the Middle years.) The government, he says period, be it five or 10 or East scene." Even the Jerusalem Law of July 30, should issue a declaration even 15 years, tolerable and 1980 which, he says, was pledging that no more land profitable for Jerusalem's "unnecessary and need- will be expropriated in Arabs on the human and lessly provocative" has not Jerusalem for Jewish hous- economic level but also — affected life in the city de- ing. He says there is enough gently but firmly — point in spite the hullaballoo its land available for comple- the direction of a broader passage caused, including tion of the city's expansion resolution of the Middle the transfer of 13 embassies plans within present munic- East conflict, proving that ipal limits up to a total Jews and Arabs can live and to Tel Aviv. He notes that in all the population of 650,000- work together, preserving are criticism of the law abroad, 700,000. values and sites that mat- Kollek also wants to see sacred to both and that no recognition is given to the provision of the law he the old British law on ter so much more than the succeeded in having in- municipalities, which hatred and strife of political cluded guaranteeing pro- still prevails in Israel, emotion." tection of the holy places, removed as far as freedom of access to them Jerusalem is concerned Aerospace Chair and respect for their adhe- so that it would be a capi- tal district or county with at Technion rents. Adoption of the law, he authority over functions HAIFA — The Technion points out, was a reaction to such as housing, educa- recently established the two provocative resolutions tion, health and social Max and Lottie Dresher of the Egyptian Parliathent, services in the hands of Chair in aerospace propul- one declaring "Arab local agencies, not in sion in the department of Jerusalem" to be an integ- government ministries. aeronautical engineering, ral part of the West Bank Once the authority over in honor of the Glencoe, Ill., and the second demanding these and other local couple. that "Jerusalem must be functions is vested loc- The Dresher Chair will under Arab sovereignty." ally, he points out, "the The Jerusalem Law, he re- way will be open for the support teaching and re- minds us, had no legal effect creation of neighborhood search activities in the field except to confirm the agencies and other local of aerospace propulsion sys- "well-publicized Israeli organizations and the tems. is--