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Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Knesset election campaign
opening on television Mon-
day night was more theatri-
cal than political. The half
hour of air time allotted for
the messages of all parties
was in any event a welcome
relief for viewers deprived
of TV this week by the ongo-
ing strike of broadcast jour-
nalists.
The Supreme Court or-
dered the electioneering to
begin for the purpose of in-
forming voters of the posi-
tions of the parties on var-
ious issues. The journalists
complied, lifting their
blackout for 30 minutes,
after which the screens
went dark again.
The show itself was a tes-
timonial to the methods of
Madison Avenue: entertain
the public and they will buy
your product or in this case,
vote for the sponsoring
party.
The Labor Alignment
opted for light comedy. Its
segment was openedd by the
popular "Gashah Hahiver"
trio, known for their comic
skits who told the viewers "I
too used to vote Likud. I too
made a mistake." That con-
fession of repentence was
followed by film clips of the
alignment troika — Shimon
Peres, former Premier Yit-
zhak Rabin and former
President Yitzhak Navon —
who summed up their polit-
ical credos in the few sec-
onds allowed them.
Labor's stress was clearly
on wooing the Oriental
community which voted
heavily for Likud in the last
two elections.
Likud went in for
endorsements, featuring
film clips of people from all
walks of life who said they
supported Likud.
Likud's most ubiquitous
slogan was "The people
want Likud," a direct retort
to Labor's "You need the
alignment" slogan.

The Lebanon situation,
easily the most decisive and
bitterly debated in Israel
these days, was glossed over
by both major parties.
The smaller parties on
the left wing of the political
spectrum, Shinui and
Shulamit Aloni's Civil
Rights Movement, were
sharply critical of the Leba-
non war. Both aimed their
campaign messages at
Labor supporters, darning
that by voting for them they
had a better chance of mold-
ing future policy than by
voting the Alignment tic-
ket.
The National Religious
Party warned observant
Jews that the state-
subsidized religious educa-
tion system would be
endangered without the
NRP. It directed its message
to voters who might support

the more ultra-Orthodox
Aguda Israel Party, imply-
ing that only the NRP can
strengthen the influence of
the religious camp.
Tami, which represents a
largely Sephardic, low-
income constituency, fea-
tured its leader, Aharon
Abu-Hatzeira, in a fireside
style chat. Former Finance
Minister Yigael Hurwitz,
plugged his new Ometz
Party which calls for eco-
nomic austerity and a
broad-based national unity
government.
Mordechai Ben-Porat, a
member of the late Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan's
now defunct Telem Party,
stressed his experience and
personal integrity. All of
the various parties' mes-
sages were pre-recorded.
Meanwhile, a climatic
debate between Preinier
Yitzhak Shamir and Labor
Party Chairman Shimon
Peres who hopes to replace
him, will be televised in two
weeks, on or about July 10,
when the Knesset election
campaign is at its peak. The
voters go to the polls July
23.
In a related development,
the Israeli Supreme Court
rejected an appeal by the
Civil Rights Association to
allow prisoners to vote in
next month's Knesset elec-
tions. The five-justice panel
that ruled on the issue de-
clined to state their reasons
but are expectedto do so at a
later date.
The campaign began with
a debate between Defense
Minister Moshe Arens and
former Premier Yitzhak
Rabin.
It was a gentlemanly ex-
change and, if it indeed sets
the tone for future debates
between Likud and the
Labor Alignment, the 1984
campaign promises to be on
a higher plane than• of
1981 which was char-
acterized by fierce polemics
and bitter personal attacks.
There seemed, in fact, to
be little basic difference in
policy between the two par-
ties. Rabin, who is slated to
become defense minister in
the event of a Labor victory,
proposed a gradual with-
drawal of the Israel Defense
Force from south Lebanon
which, he believed, could be
completed in a matter of
months.
Arens, who is likely to re-
tain the defense portfolio if
Likud remains in power,
suggested that the less talk
there was of an IDF with-
drawal the easier it would
be to reach an understand-
ing with Syria which oc-
cupies a much larger area of
Lebanon. Rabin also called
for reduced government
spending on settlements in
the West Bank; primarily
for economic reasons-.

. Likud promises to in-
crease settlement activity
in the occupied territories,
eliminate the military and
political potential of the
Palestine Liberation
Organization and improve
the peace with Egypt, now
at a low ebb. The party also
points to the low rate of un-
employment and its efforts
to narrow the social gap.
The Labor Alignment
stands on a platform com-
mitment to resume efforts
to solve the Palestinian
problem within the
framework of negotiations
with Jordan but pledges no
return to Israel's pre-1967
borders. It would continue
to build settlements, but
only on the basis of security
needs and strategic consid-
erations and not in the de-
nsely populated areas of the
West Bank. •
On the sensitive issue of
religious hegemony, Labor
stands on the premise that

all branches of Judaism de-
serve official recognition —
a view fiercely disputed by
the Orthodox establishment
— and opposes any change
in the Law of Return defin-
ing "Who is a Jew."

The latest public opinion
polls continue to give Labor
a substantial lead over
Likud with elections only
four weeks away. The latest
poll published in Yediot Ac-
hronot projected 54 Knesset
seats for the Labor Align-
ment to 39 for Likud. The
poll was conducted between
June 19-21 among 1,183
persons of voting age. Ear-
her in the month, Labor led
Likud by 54-40.
The smaller parties
showed no significant
changes. About a third of
the respondents were unde-
cided, indicating that the
situation could change by
the time the voters go to the
polls.

Reform rabbis back away
from clash with Lubavitch

New York (JTA) — Rabbi
W. Gunther Plaut of To-
ronto, president of the Cen-
tral Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis, the association
of American Reform rabbis,
said that its convention
delegates had decided to
table a motion assailing the
Hasidic Lubavitcher
movement's outreach pro-
gram "to reduce the ten-
sions within the Jewish
community and to re-
emphasize the needs of Klal
Yisroel at this critical
hour."
Plant was re-elected to a
second term as president at
the CCAR 95th annual
meeting at Grossinger's
Hotel in Liberty, N.Y. The
vote to table, 88 to 65, was
for a motion that said there
were growing strains be-
tween Jewish students in-
volved in the Lubavitch col-
lege outreach program and
their nor-Orthodox par-
ents.
An earlier version of the
resolution was sharply crit-
ical of the Lubavitch out-
reach program, comparing
its methods to those of cult
groups and accusing its
leaders of driving wedges
between young non-
Orthodox Jews and their
families.
The resolutions commit-
tee submitted a milder
statement, noting the al-
leged conflict and urging
talks between the Reform
and Lubavitch movements
to resolve the conflict.
Plaut's complete state-
ment was that "despite a
discernible desire on the
part of many members to
assert:. the authenticity!! of

Reform, there was a larger
overriding sentiment that
prevailed; to reduce the ten-
sions within the Jewish
community, and to em-
phasize the needs of Klal
at this critical
time."
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, a
spokesman for • the
Lubavitch movement, de-
clared at the movement's
headquarters in the Crown
Heights section of Brook-
lyn, idler the vote to table,
that he was "glad the mat-
ter has been put to rest,"
adding it was-"regrettable it
had ever come up."
He called the harsh origi-
nal version, which had been
widely publicized before the
CCAR convention opened,
"outrageous, libelous and
very divisive."
Rabbi Krinsky added that
he had not seen any public
statement from any Jewish
organization "countering
this slur." He compared it
with Jewish reaction to the
"Hymietown" remarks of
Democratic Presidential
aspirant - Rev. Jesse
Jackson, which he said 'he
felt were "innocuous," while
the Reform resolution, in its
initial version, was "very
divisive" and one which
could have caused "irrepar-
able harm" to the Jewish
community.
He said the Lubavitch
outreach program on cam-
puses throughout the world,
much of it aimed at unaffil-
iated or disaffected Jewish
students, "has been suc-
cessful with every kind of
Jews" and that many Re-
form students had been
helped

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