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Rose Greenberg, left, a board member of the Jewish Federation
Apartments and Eva Meister, a resident, present a check to Michael
Berke, executive director and chief administrative officer of the
Jewish Welfare Federation. The money was raised at the residents'
Chanukah bazaar.
Coalition Pulls Together
To Halt Religious Revolt
Jerusalem (JTA) — Labor and
Likud are expected to put aside
their sharp differences to stave
off a revolt by the religious par-
ties in their unity coalition gov-
ernment.
Although political observers
do not see it as a serious threat,
Premier Shimon Peres called on
Deputy Premier and Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the
Likud leader, last week for
cooperation between the two
major coalition partners to kill a
non-confidence motion by the
religious factions in the Knes-
set.
The latter, Aguda Israel,
Shas, National Religious Party
and Morasha, control 12 seats in
the 120-member parliament. Ac-
cording to observers, the only
danger their non-confidence mo-
tion poses is that, given the de-
licate political balance in the
coalition, it could snowball for
reasons far removed from the
religious issues that prompted
it.
The four religious factions,
meeting last Tuesday
threatened to introduce their
motion for three reasons.
They are unhappy over the
failure to bring their "Who is a
Jew" amendment to the Law of
Return up for another vote in
the Knesset — it was twice de-
feated in recent years — and are
furious with Peres' proposal to
freeze the divisive issue for ten
years.
They are disappointed that so
far they have been unable to
stop Brigham Young University
from building a new Mormon
Center adjacent to the Hebrew
ITniversity Cti lupus on Mt.
Scopus, a project approved by
the Jerusalem municipality.
And they are aroused by their
failure to force the government
to ban Saturday games at the
new Ramat Gan football
stadium.
The "Who is a Jew" issue is
sharply divisive among both Is-
raels and Jews abroad. It is
strenously opposed by Reform
and Conservative Jewry in the
U.S. It is passionately supported
by Israel's Orthodox establish-
ment. Avraham Shapiro of the
Aguda Israel Party said he was
prepared to forego all gov-
ernmental special support for
religious institutions in Israel
"if there is a 20 percent chance
of getting the amendment
through" the Knesset.
Opposition to the Mormon
Center is motivated by fear of
missionary activity for which
the Mormon Church, based in
Salt Lake City, Utah, is notori-
ous. But the Mormon represen-
tatives here have promised
explicitly to desist from pro-
selytizing in Israel. Neverthe-
less, according to Shapiro, "they
are bringing Jews into
Jerusalem."
Although the religious fac-
tions are at odds with the much
larger secular parties on these
issues, they seem to share the
almost universal abhorrence of
Rabbi Meir Kahane's racist
Kach Party. Kahane introduced
his own non-confidence motion
in the Knesset last week. The
religious MKs joined the rest of
their colleagues who absented
themselves from the chamber
while Kahane spoke. They re-
turned to vote against the Kach
motion.
Rabbi Eliezer Shach, spiritual
leader of the Shas Party, has in-
structed his followers never
under any circumstances to sup-
port Kahane on any issue what-
soever.