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Yitzhak Modai and many of his fellow ministers to hold the price rises in abeyance until after Passover. Deputy Premier David Levy spoke of "streamA of housewives" jamming supermarkets Saturday night to make their holiday purchase be- fore the new prices took effect. The new package deal was adopted in the course of a grueling debate in the Knesset over the new national budget which began last week and ended in the early hours of Friday morning. The bleary-eyed lawmakers finally agreed to a budget of 20.2 trillion shekels (about $23 billion) for the 1985-1986 fiscal year which started Monday. The debate which kept the Knesset in session three days be- yond its scheduled adjournment for spring recess, was marked by acrimonius wrangling with the various Orthodox parties over al- locations for their religious in- stitutions. The Labor Ministry also demanded increased funds for Kupat Holim, the Histadrut sick fund. Ireland's Jews Fought Against Menten's Return BY MAURICE SAMUELSON Special to The Jewish News Sheila Weinbaum- Prenzlauer 1 FURNITURE good with coupon only through April Jerusalem (JTA) — The prices of hundreds of goods and services went up by 10-15 percent as of Monday as the Treasury intro- duced a new economic package deal approved last week by the government, business and the Histadrut. The new plan was put into effect immediately at the insistence of Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai and the Employers Association, despite strong opposition from many ministers and labor who argued that consumers should not be faced with higher prices barely a week before the start of the Passover holidays. But Modai and his aides in- sisted that the Treasury could no longer sustain its subsidies of foodstuffs and other items in face of a rapidly declining shekel. The Employers Association threatened to pull out of the deal if there was delay in implementing the price hikes. They said they had agreed to the package with the understanding that the first round of price increases would be- come effective immediately. A week ago, the government hiked the price of petrol and other fuels by 13 percent. The package deal calls for price rises now, a two-month freeze at the new level, to be followed by a second round of increases and an- other freeze. It replaces the wage-price freeze package insti- tuted last January which had only limited success. Subsidies continued to drain the Treasury and inflation soared by 13.5 percent in February com- pared to only a five percent rise the previous month. The new package has been called — euphemistically — a "reinterpre- tation" of the one it replaced. Modai was determined to ig- nore the protests by Histadrut • Ilawasimossommilmo..1111 We have a decorator on our staff who can help "redo" or just "freshen" up your office or home at great savings to you. We carry carpeting, wallpaper, drapes, furniture and every accessory to complete the "look." Call Sheila for assistance 399-9830 10600 Galaxie Ferndale, Mich. 48220 v.; Dublin — A sense of relief is sweeping the 2,000 Jews of the Irish Republic after the govern- ment's ban of Pieter Menten, the 85-year-old Dutch millionnaire found guilty of slaughtering Jews in Poland in 1941. Menten owns a big estate near the city of Waterford and was planning to spend the rest of his life there after serving eight years out of a 10-year sentence in a Dutch prison. But on March 21, following strenous protests by the Dublin Jewish representative council backed by a handful of Jewish members of the Irish Parliament, the Irish Cabinet declared Men- ten an undesirable alien and pro- hibited him from entering the Emerald Isle. The decision demonstrates the new-found confidence of Irish Jewry, the change which has overcome the Irish people's ap- praisal of World War II, as well as Ireland's sensitivity to interna- tional public. opinion now that it is a full-fledged member of the European Economic Community. It may have also been connected with the fact that Ireland is shortly to pay host to Israel's Irish-born president, Chaim Her- zog, and its healthy respect for Jewish public opinion in the United States. Menten was first arrested in Holland in 1948 but released a year later after successfully ap- pealng against a conviction of col- laborating with the Nazis. Sub- sequently, Holland turned down requests for his extradition by Po- land, the Soviet Union and Israel. In 1976, he left Holland secretly the day before his re-arrest was ordered following new allegations about his 1941 activities in Po- land. Brought back to Amster- dam, he stood trial in May 1977 and was found guilty of complicity in the murder of 100 Jews, includ- ing women and children, in August 1941 near Lvov. Jewish Telegraphic Agency