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T-SHIRTS and more • • • • • • • • • • • Installation Available • • • • • • • • • • • • • On the western outskirts of Jerusalem on the way to the Hadassah hospital lies Ein Karem — a picturesque and serene village striking and unique in its old-time beauty. Occasionally churCh bells, children's laughter and prayers from the local synagogues break the deep silence permeating the val- ley in which the village rests among the hills. Its flora — the silvery olive trees, the vines, the figs, the pomegranates and the al- monds — emphasize its bi- blical character, as if time has been halted in the vil- lage, holy to millions of Christians all over the world. Christians believe that it was in Ein Karem, tradi- tionally regarded as the "City of Judah" mentioned in the Gospels, that John the Baptist, precursor of Jesus, was born to Elisabeth and Zacharias. To this vil- lage they believe, came Now you can join Southfield's finest social and athletic club ... 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Thousands of pilgrims visit the village's numer- ous churches, convents, spires and minarets. These places of worship, as well as 'a number of small synagogues, mingle with rough-stone rebuilt and modernized dwellings, gardens and reclaimed terraces, whose architecture re- tains the ancient beauty of the place. Striking, too, are the Franciscan Church of the Nativity of St. John, Mary's well, the Franciscan Church of the Visitation, etc. A new municipal develop- ing and preservation plan for Ein Karem has recently caused turbulence in the serene village and con- troversy among its peaceful inhabitants— 250 families. The residents are mainly immigrants from Yemen and Morocco who moved in 1948 into the houses the Arabs deserted, after the 1948 war, along with ar- tists,journalists and nature lovers who prefer the vil- lage's rural quietness to other more bustling neighborhoods in the city. Most artists and intellectu- als moved to the village after the Six-Day War. They rebuilt the forlorn Arab dwellings with great care, love and enthusiasm, turn- ing the once abandoned Arab village into one of the most beautiful villages in Israel. According to its oppo- nents, the program threatens to destroy the special, biblical, holy, inti- mate and peaceful quality of Ein Karem. Hence, deter- mined and angry, they have organized to fight it. Arie Rachamimov, the in- itiator and architect of the program, feels Ein Karem lacks communal services. "It lacks a proper system of Occupation Film Seen by French PARIS (JTA) — French State Television last weekend showed a 12- year-old film, "The Sorrow and the Pity," which de- scribes the average Fren- chman's reaction, or as many say "lack of reaction," to the Nazi occupation of France and the deportation of most of the country's Jews. Though the film was shot in 1969 by top European di- rector Max Ophuls, France's three television channels refused to show it and most country-wide dis- tributors banned it from mass audience cinemas. One of the first decisions of the new television man- agement, appointed after last May's Socialist victory, was to acquire the film for national programming in prime time. The noblest mind the best contentment has. paved roads, drainage and sufficient street lighting," according to Rachamimov. "All these shortcomings have created throughout the years a process of environmental deteriora- tion whose accumulative ef- fect is destructive. "Increased individual building and a demand by more people to move to Ein Karem made it necessary in 1977 to pre- pare the development and preservation pro- gram?' He adds that it should be carried out with minimum delay. Those opposed to the de- velopment plan claim that adding 200 houses to Ein Karem's 350 existing houses would abolish the village and destroy its uniqueness. It is a small, holy and quiet place. It is the only place in which you can feel, smell, hear ... a hamlet as it was thousands of years ago," according to Walter Zanger, an opponent of the plan. "There is no industry here. Moreover, we have achieved integration be- tween people coming from various backgrounds. "The pressures put upon us are enormous," Zanger said. "The main pressure is money. The authorities want to make money in Ein Karem. We would agree to add 60-80 dwellings that wouldn't destroy the social structure and peace of the village and turn it into an- other bourgeois neighbor- hood. 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