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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 21, 1981
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Decision Due in Archeology Fight Over Dig at the City of David
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The controversy over the
archeological excavation in
the City of David in
Jerusalem between the ar-
cheologists and religious
circles entered a new stage
this week as Mayor Teddy
Kollek came out in clear
support of the scientists.
He offered his support be-
fore the two Chief Rabbis
were scheduled to rule
whether the dig site is actu-
ally an old Jewish cemetery.
116. In an interview on the
WVoice of Israel, Kollek de-
clared, "A scientist will not
dig in graves, just as an
engineer will not construct
a building which may col-
lapse." He emphasized,
however, that the bottom
line is that archeologists
must decide in the matter of
excavations, not rabbis.
"Such things cannot be
determined out of com-
plete ignorance, whether
this is the ignorance of a
young yeshiva student or
someone else at the top of
the ladder," Kollek said
in a clear hint to the two
Chief Rabbi. Both
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi
Shlomo Goren and
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Judaic scholars, Prof. Ep-
Ovadia Yosef have al- hraim Urbach of the He-
ready said the dig was brew University, sharply
within an old Jewish condemned ultra-Orthodox
cemetery.
elements trying to put an
Last Friday, the parties end to the archeological ex-
involved in the controversy cavations.
reached an interim solution
Urbach,. president of
at a meeting attended by the Israel Academy of
Religious Affairs Minister Sciences, a Hebrew Uni-
Yosef Burg, the two Chief versity professor
Rabbis and Dr. Yigal Shilo, emeritus of Talmud, and
the archeologist in charge of himself an Orthodox
the excavation. It was de- Jew, said the attack on
cided that the two rabbis the archeologists was an
would revisit the site to see attack on archeology and
whether it was indeed an science in general. He at-
ancient cemetery. Follow- tacked Chief Rabbi Go-
ing the visit the same par- ren, whose intervention
ties would meet again to in the matter he said was
make a final decision in the "totally unwarranted
and unjustified." Urbach
dispute.
After the meeting Friday, said one could have ex-
Burg suggested that during pected Goren to condemn
their visit the two rabbis the acts of sabotage by
might consider limiting the the religious circles, but
area of the dig so that not all instead he made "sur-
work will have to stop, or prising statements."
Violence and protests by
perhaps work out a system
which would allow the con- the ultra-Orthodox caused
tinuation of the work with- part of the dig to be closed
out any possible damage to temporarily nearly two
the old graves. But until the weeks ago.
The public campaign
second meeting takes place
this week, all work at the against the pressure of the
religious circles was picking
site will be suspended.
One of Israel's leading up momentum. Heads at the
universities in the country
were to meet at the Hebrew
University for an emer-
gency session. They were
also scheduled to meet with
Knesset Speaker Menahem
Savidor together with lead-
ing members of the Israel
Exploration Society.
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