AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY FOR N EWS1 Detroit Chapter -41 ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, INC. topic .. . Israel's Housing Problem What is keeping a great many of these wandering Jews from settling in their ancestral homeland is not fear of war, nor the knowledge that Israel's streets are not paved with gold, but the well-founded suspicion that Israel's vaunted absorption machinery is largely a sham . . . While absorption centres are being closed, according to plan, jobless immigrants are being asked to choose between impossibly expensive apartments for purchase and unavailable rental apartments .. . Editorial, JERUSALEM POST, January 21, 1989 Israeli architects, Technion graduates .. . Benny Schwarz Gideon Badt will discuss .. . Reducing the cost of Israeli housing by using American style housing design, materials and construction methods. Slides will compare American and Israeli private housing. program moderator .. . James Deutchman 7:45 PM, Wednesday United Hebrew Schools MARCH 15 on West 12-Mile Rd., East of Lahser Rd. save 15% save 20% save 10% save 20% • multi-car • AARP member • Over 55 years old • Clean record (last 3 years) You Save 65% For a Free Quote Call Michael Mostyn 473-2949 At Very Reasonable Prices Call For An Appointment L 18 `/! )/t tellaw6n established 1919 V-, FINE JEWELERS GEM/DIAMOND SPECIALIST AWARDED CERTIFICATE BY GIA IN GRADING AND EVALUATION FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1989 Telegraph Road 30400 Suite 134 Birmingham, MI 48010 (313) 642-5575 DAILY 10-5:30 THURS. 10-7 SAT. 10-3 Kollek Re-Elected, But Loses Council Control Jerusalem (JTA) — Although reelected Monday, Mayor Teddy Kollek lost con- trol of the 31-seat Jerusalem City Council when few Arabs turned out to support his One Jerusalem party. He will be forced to share control of the City Council with religious and other par- ties because of low Arab voter turnout. Turnouts were highest in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, and the religious parties gained at Kollek's expense. In the elections in more than 100 municipalities, the conservative Likud party had won impressive victories. i i Political commentators were beginning to talk of Israel's "second political revolution." Likud came out of the poll- ing booths holding the mayor- ships of six of Israel's ten largest cities, breaking the rival Labor Party's hold on several city halls for the first time in the country's 40-year history. Neither Knesset Member David Magen, head of the Likud's campaign apparatus for the voting on Tuesday, nor party secretariat head and foreign minister Moshe Arens made any direct effort to corn- pare the victory to the 1977 sweep, which ended 29 years of Labor rule in the national government. Magen did note that the results of the election were a vote of confidence for the Likud, which called on those who support the party in na- tional elections to back its candidates in the city hall races. He and Arens said that voters were giving a message to their party leader, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, to take to Washington. Shamir, some observers were beginn- ing to say, could point to the vote as a mandate for his par: ty's firm stand on diplomatic and security matters. In the meantime, Labor was just beginning to assess how badly it had been wounded. The party leader, Finance Minister Shimon Peres, said "that there were lessons to learn" from the sweep, but in- dicated that in some places, Labor suffered because the party and its natural allies (the Citizens Rights Move- ment and Mapam) had not put together combined tickets for the elections. Perhaps the biggest shock came in an election the Likud did not win, in the Labor stronghold of Haifa. Labor's . two-time incumbent, Arye Gurel, got almost 60 per cent of the votes in 1985, in the port city dubbed "Red Haifa" because of Labor links. When the votes were counted Likud candidate Rami Dotan, a former army officer, had lost to the incumbent Laborite by the thinnest of margins, and some Likud politicos were already calling for a recount. The Likud did better in Beersheba, the country's fourth largest city. Yitzhak (Ijo) Berger, a former presi- dent of the Israel Bonds organization, took more than 60 per cent of the vote to defeat his Labor opponent, Benz Carmel. In Aviv, independent- minded, but still Likud can- didate, Shlomo (Chich) Lahat won handlily over Labor's Natan Wolloch. In both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, major gains were scored by religious parties. One estimate had 40 per cent of the votes in the capiral going to various religious parties, while the United Religious Front, comprised of Shas, Agudat Yisrael and the Na- tional Religious Party, nearly doubled their representation on the Tel Aviv Council. Another major turnaround took place in the Arab sector, where the turnout was much higher than the 40-odd per cent among Jewish voters. The fundamentalist Islamic Movement cut sharply into the strength of the Arab Com- munist Democratic Front for Peace and Equality in Arab towns and villages all across the Galilee, winning control of city hall in the two large towns of Umm el-Fahm and Kafr Kassem. Among the Arab popula- tion, only 4 percent of the eligible voters turned out. The remainder followed the orders of intifada leaders to show their opposition to Israeli rule by avoiding the polls. 80 Help Open Soviet Yeshiva New York (JTA) — The Judaic Studies Center, the first institution of its kind in the Soviet Union for 60 years, opened officially in Moscow last week. Its founding father, Rabbi Adin _ Steinsaltz, a world- famous Talmudic scholar from Jerusalem, welcomed the first class of 80 students enrolled in the three-year course of study.