THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 31, 1985
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DAVID ROSENMAN
20 Years Automobile Experience
NEWS
Broke Textile
Mill Closes
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Haifa dis-
trict court judge Eliezer Barr,
rejecting 'a last minute appeal
by Minister of Commerce and
Industry Ariel Sharon, ordered
the bankrupt Ata Textile mills
complex on Haifa Bay shut
down Monday. It is the largest
single employer in the Haifa
area.
Sharon, who won a postpone-
ment of the original closure or-
der, to have taken effect May 1,
is lobbying for the sale of the
mills to a group headed by
Eliezer Peleg, the government-
appointed receiver and tempor-
ary manager of Ata, and a
group of foreign investors.
Having failed to win a second
postponement, he said Monday
that he would oppose, at next
Sunday's Cabinet session, a de-
cision by the Ministerial Eco-
nomic Committee Sunday to sell
Ata to a local investment group
headed by the two sons of
former Finance Minister Yigael
Hurvitz. Hurvitz is a
Minister-Without Portfolio re-
presenting the one-man Ometz
faction in the national unity co-
alition government.
The Committee, of which Sha-
ron is a member, preferred the
Hurvitz offer because it would
require a government assistance
in the amount of $9 million
compared to the $30-$40 million
demanded by the Sharon-backed
group. Sharon claims that the
Hurvitz investors lack experi-
ence in the textile business and
cannot offer the market guaran-
tees of their rivals.
Meanwhile, the closure order,
though not unexpected,
triggered mass protests by Ata
employees. They blocked the
main Haifa-Acre highway out-
side the Kiryat Ata plant for
two hours by lying down on the
road. When ordered to move by
police, they barricaded them-
selves inside the mills. Their ob-
jective was to prevent Peleg
from carrying out an earlier
court order that he hire security
guards to make sure no workers
remain inside the plant after it
is shut down.
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Vienna (JTA) — Former
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky said
last week that he had postponed
indefinitely his May visit to Is-
rael, because his safety could
not be guaranteed following the
disclosure of his involvement in
the 'exchange of three Israeli
soldiers for hundreds of Palesti-
nian terrorists.
Kreisky told a news confer-
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