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Tel Aviv (JTA) — About
60,000 mainly young, liberal
and left-wing Israelis packed
the plaza outside the Tel
Aviv Museum late last week
to protest a series of restric-
tive religious measures
backed by the government
which passed their first
reading in the Knesset last
week or will soon be in-
troduced.
The size of the turnout was
estimated by the organizers
of the rally, Hemdat.
Hemdat, whose name is an
acronym for "Freedom of
Science, Thought and Cul-
ture," is an umbrella body of
57 groups including left-
leaning political parties,
kibbutzim, Reform and Con-
servative religious organiza-
tions and Jewish humanist
movements.
The protest began with a
march from the Mann
Auditorium to the museum.
The marchers carried signs
denouncing one bill that
would impose new restric-
tions on Israel's already
tough abortion laws and an-
other which would forbid the
production and sale of pork
in Israel.
Other measures attacked
would virtually eliminate all
forms of public transporta-
tion on the Sabbath and
would censor what the Or-
thodox consider "lewd"
advertising in the guise of
an anti- pornography bill.
The legislation was the
price demanded by the Or-
thodox Agudat Yisrael party
when it joined Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Shamir's
Likud-led coalition govern-
ment on Nov. 18.
The Agudah's four
Knesset seats assured
Shamir of a comfortable 66
votes in the 120-member
parliament, where previous-
ly he had to govern with a
shaky 62-58 majority.
But opponents charging
religious coercion accused
the government of sur-
rendering to blackmail by
the Orthodox minority.
Many posters referred to
the fact that the Orthodox
are exempt from service in
the Israel Defense Force but
demand heavy subsidies for
attending yeshivot instead.
One speaker, Knesset
member Amnon Rubinstein
of the Center- Shinui Move-
ment, denounced the "rape
of the majority by the
minority." He called both
Likud and the opposition
Labor Party "willing victims
of this rape."

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