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breakdown of public services this
week as striking municipal em-
ployees were joined by emergency
maintenance personnel.(JTA) —
Hospitals may be forced to close,
traffic lights will cease operating
and water pressure will drop. The
city's fire fighters staged a warn-
ing strike at noon Tuesday, park-
ing their engines in front of City
Hall.
The cause of the near chaos is
the failure of the municipality to
pay its employees their November
wages which were due Dec. 1. The
city's coffers are empty and the
Israeli Treasury, so far, has re-
fused to transfer funds to meed
the payroll. Similar situations
exist in towns and cities in other
parts of Israel, a reflection of the
nation's economic crisis.
Tel Aviv authorities ordered
children to stay away from school
Wednesday even though striking
teachers agreed Tuesday night to
return to their classrooms while
their wage demands are
negotiated. The reason for the un-
scheduled holiday was the ac-
cumulation of rubbish in school
buidlings.
Uncollected garbage is piling
up in the streets at the rate of 600
tons a day. A striking sanitation
worker told reporters, "It's lucky
its winter. The stench would be
unbearable in summer." He
added, "It's a great time for the
cats."
Tel Aviv Mayor Shlomo Lehat
said he sympathized with the
plight of the workers and blamed
the government for leaving the
city without funds. The Finance

mismanagement, contending that
they used up their money for
non-essentials. Lehat responded
by citing the government's huge
and growing deficit. "Unlike us,
they can print money when they
run short," he said.

Resolving Israel's economic
crisis is the top priority of the
unity government ; superseding
even such urgent matters as the
withdrawal of the Israel Defense
Force from Lebanon and improv-
ing relations with Egypt, Israel's
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin
told a Joint Israel Appeal dinner
in London last week.
Rabin, who has since returned
to Israel, noted that he was "the
first defense minister since the
Six-Day War to cut the defense
budget in a very meaningful way,
by over 10 percent. It involves
great risks and I am ready to take
it," he said. He explained that na-
tional strength depends not only
on military power but on a sound
economy, cultural and social de-
velopment. There are "painful"
cuts in store in the public sector in
Israel and the Labor-Likud unity
government is determined to
make them, Rabindeclared.
He spoke of the need to pull the
IDF out of Lebanon. Israel should
have "no more illusions" that it
can impose its peace on anyone
nor should it link its withdrawal
from Lebanon to a Syrian with-
drawal, the Defense Minister
said. "If the Syrian army wants to
stay in Lebanon, let them enjoy it.
Whoever puts his foot in Lebanon
sinks in the mud."

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Haifa — Every year the as-
trologers read the stars and tell us
what's going to happen. How
accurate were they for 1984?
Four or five of Israel's star-
gazers have earned something of a
reputation. Perhaps the best
known is Herzl Lifshitz. His re-
cord speaks for itself.
He foresaw the death of Soviet
leader Yuri Andropov, but also
predicted that Yassir Arafat
would be killed before the year
was out, as would Syrian
President Hafez Assad. Ronald
Reagan would not get a second
term, he asserted positively. He
even pessimistically predicted
that the world would face a major
catastrophe, with terrible earth-
quakes and enormous loss of life.
California would be under water
to such an extent that the major
event in the Olympics would be
swimming!
Here in Israel he predicted a
Labor victory in the elections and
a new war with Syria.

So much for Lifshitz.
Ruth Eli is sometimes called
the Guru of Israel's astrologists,
and she is consulted by political
and industrial leaders alike. She
fared well in politics. She foresaw
Ezer Weizmann's return to public
life and selection of Shimon Peres
as Prime Minister. The stars told
her of an improvement in rela-
tions with Egypt late in the year,
but that we would remain stuck in
Lebanon for a. long time. There
was danger of war with Syria, but
it was avoidable. Economic prob-
lems would increase, but the real
depression would begin in 1985.
Mubarak would have health prob-
lems and would face a revolt in
Egypt, she predicted.

Miryam Tamir, a competitor,
predicted that despite a difficult
start, economic conditions in Is-
rael would get better as the year
wore on. Oy, was she wrong! She
did no better in politics or foreign
affairs. There would be no change

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