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Supreme Court Ruling
Causes Religious Stir

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
Orthodox religious establish-
ment is in turmoil over a
Supreme Court ruling that a
woman may sit on a local
religious council.
The case involves Lea
Shakdiel, who was elected
last year to the religious
council in the Negev town of
Yeroham, but was not seated
because of objections by Or-
thodox members.
Israel's two chief rabbis,
Avraham Shapiro
(Ashkenazi) and Mordechai
Eliahu (Sephardi), issued a
joint statement right after
the high court's decision, war-
ning that scholars and rabbis
might refuse to sit on
religious councils all over
the country if women were
allowed to do so.
The chief rabbis observed
that it was "customary for
reasons of modesty, that men
and women not sit together
on religious bodies!'
Each city and township in
Israel has its religious coun-

cil, composed of nominees of
the local authorities. Their
function is to maintain local
religious facilities, but the
service they perform is ad-
ministrative, not theological.
Until now they have been a
male, mainly Orthodox,
preserve.
The Supreme court ordered
the mayor of Yeroham, Amir
Peretz, to endorse Shakdiel's
nomination within 30 days.
The head of the council,
Moshe Peretz — not related to
the mayor — said he would
rather resign than sit with
Shakdiel and claimed the
other council members felt
the same.
The latest confrontation
between the religious
establishment and the high
court, a secular institution,
hag its irony. Shakdiel, a
school teacher who brought
the test case to court, is an
observant Jew. Justice
Menahem Elon, who wrote
the decision, is an Orthodox
Jew and Talmudic scholar.

Israel Charges Four
Editors With Sedition

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Jerusalem (JTA)—The four-
member editorial staff of the
leftist Israeli newspaper,
Derekh Hanitzotz, were told
last week that they are being
held on suspicion of having
acted "against the 'state!'
The charges were the first
leveled against the editors
since their arrest three
months ago. The suspects are
Michal Schwartz, Hadas
Lahav, Ronni Ben-Efrat and
her husband, Yaacov Ben-
Efrat.
The prosecution promised
to file soon formal charges
against the four. A fifth
suspect, Asaf Adiv, publisher
of the newspaper, was ar-
rested last week in his office

while being interviewed by a
foreign television crew.
The editors are suspected of
belonging to a "hostile
organization." Israeli media
has identified this as the
Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, a pro-
Soviet terrorist group.
According to Tel Aviv
District Judge Arye Aven-Ari,
some of the suspects have con-
fessed to the charges.
Friends of the suspects
claim that closing Derekh
Hanitzotz three months ago
had nothing to do with the
allegations against the edi-
torial staff. Instead, they say,
it was intended to silence
critics of the government.

Labor, Likud Skirmish
Over Election Date

Jerusalem (JTA) — Labor
and Likud have begun skir-
mishing for advantage in ar-
ranging the upcoming
Knesset elections.
Labor has introduced a bill
to separate the Knesset and
municipal elections, which
traditionally are held concur-
rently. The Laborites argue
that voters should not be re-
quired to decide weighty na-

tional issues, such as the
future of the administered
territories, while mulling
over such mundane matters
as "sewage and garbage col-
lection!'
Labor would postpone the
elections for mayors and town
council members for a half
year. Likud, which believes it
would benefit from
simultaneous national and