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But only one super four star hotel ►Strictly Kosher ►Shabbat elevator ►Walking distance to the city center and Old City ►Great family plan rates ►Facilities for family functions Newly renovated 3 Mendele Street Jerusalem 92147 Israel Tel:02-663111 Telex:26536 Fax. 972-2-690964 B.A.L. Jerusalem (JTA) — Despite dire warnings from hard- liners, Israel's Cabinet voted overwhelmingly last week to take part in the Middle East peace con- ference that the United States and Soviet Union will host next week in Madrid. Invitations to the peace conference, which will open in the Spanish capital on Oct. 30, were extended by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin, whose meeting and joint news conference here were in themselves some- thing of a historic event. The announcement that Israel, its Arab neighbors and the Palestinians had all agreed to attend the peace conference was the culmina- tion of intensive diplomatic activity begun by Baker in March, shortly after the end of the Persian Gulf War. It capped the secretary's eighth visit to the region, which had begun the previous weekend with somber news that Syria would not participate in a side conference on regional issues, such as arms control and water resources. That the United States now expects the conference to result in a far-reaching settlement involving Israel, its Arab- neighbors and the Palestinians was made clear by Baker and by the White House. At his joint news con- ference with Mr. Pankin, the U.S. secretary spoke of the "hope of a new era in the Middle East," one "marked by dialogue and not by violence," by "cooperation and not by conflict." In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater made clear that what is being sought is "nothing less than a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement of the Arab- Israeli conflict, to be achiev- ed through a two-track ap- proach of direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states, and Israel and the Palestinians, based upon U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338." Mr. Fitzwater said Presi- dent Bush and Soviet Presi- dent Mikhail Gorbachev would attend the opening ceremony of the conference, after which the conference would be conducted at the foreign ministers level. The guests, who will have no flags or titles before them, are Israel, Syria, Leb- anon and a joint Palestinian- Jordanian team. Two Arab nations, Egypt and Algeria, plan to attend only as observers. Mr. Fitzwater said the in- vitations were cabled last week to U.S. embassies in the capitals of the invited nations. He said Mr. Bush expressed hope for a prompt and affirmative response from those invited. Israel's affirmative re- sponse came when-the Cabinet voted 16-3 to attend the conference, despite lingering misgivings about Palestinian representation and the degree to which the United States is prepared to play the role of "honest broker." The vote came after seven hours of lively, often com- bative debate. In the end, Ariel Sharon called on Shamir to resign because he (Shamir) is leading the nation into danger. the only members of the . Cabinet opposing the con- ference were Ariel Sharon, the-hard-line Likud minister of housing; Science Minister Yuval Ne'eman of the Tehiya party, which favors annexation of the ad- ministered territories; and Rehavam. Ze'evi, a minister without portfolio whose ex- tremist Moledet party favors expulsion of the Arabs from the territories. Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i of Likud voted for his own amendment, which would have insisted on the official conference invitation spelling out that it was in- tended to result in formal peace treaties. In sharp diatribes, Mr. Sharon bewailed Israel's likely fate as a result of the conference, calling up images of Czechoslovakia, made a sacrifice of world powers in 1938. In a television interview, the outspoken housing min- ister called on Mr. Shamir and his top ministers to resign because, he said, they were leading the nation into dreadful danger. Another contender for Mr. Shamir's position, Binyamin Begin, threw his support behind attending the con- ference but advised Israelis to "lower their expecta-