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Friday Night Fun:
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lmost three-quarters
of Israeli movie houses
screen films on Friday
night, much to the distress of
Orthodox elements.
Such elements — which feel
that public entertainment on
the Sabbath undermines the
Jewish character of the
Jewish state — have 'been
fighting a fierce rear-guard
battle against the screenings,
most recently in the coastal
town of Ashkelon, south of Tel
Aviv. There, until now,
cinemas have not operated on
the eve of the Sabbath, but
the management of a new
mall has announced that its
complex of theaters will be
open on Friday night. Having
failed to force a municipal
ban on the screenings, Or-
thodox rabbis have called on
their adherents to boycott all
the shops in the mall
"because of its decision to
brutally trample upon our
most sacred values."
Boycotts and political
pressure have sometimes
worked, as is the case in my
own town of Rehevot. Most
often, however, they have not,
even in Orthodox strongholds
like Jerusalem.
In the summer of 1986,
when Sabbath screenings in
the Holy City first became a
public issue, not a single
Jerusalem cinema operated
on Friday night. Now 51.5
percent of them do.
The changeover in Tel Aviv
and Haifa is hardly less
dramatic. Whereas six years
ago only a limited number of
movie houses there were open
on the eve of the Sabbath, to-
day just a single cinema re-
mains dark in each one.
As might be expected, a
large percentage of Friday
evening movie fans are teen-
agers, though their parents,
in many cases, would prefer
that they stayed home in
order to avoid the danger of
Friday night accidents.
Such accidents are primari-
ly the fault of the 20,000
youngsters who are out on the
road that evening, driving
either their family car or, if
they have rich and indulgent
parents, one of their own. Not
all kids, of course, are
reckless, but many, anxious to
impress their friends, will
disregard the speed limit,
cross from one lane to another
without warning, take cor-
ners on two wheels and other-
wise flirt with death.
Efforts are constantly being
made to curb this
phenomenon. For example,
people receiving their first
license must, for two full
years, carry a little yellow
sign on their car's back wind-
shield which proclaims: "new
driver." And, in addition,
teen-agers as a whole are bar-
red from the roads between 1
a.m. and 5 a.m.
Yet the fact remains — an
appalling 45 percent of all
Friday night accidents are
caused by reckless kids.
Religious Israelis are apt to
say "I told you so," and to
point out that their own
children are not numbered
among the victims of this
motorized slaughter. Such
preaching, however, clearly
doesn't affect the attitude of
Israel's secular majority. They
go on demanding that movie
houses and other places of
entertainment be open on (--
Friday night, and, to an ever-
increasing extent, they are
getting their way. ❑
Pilot's Body
Identified
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The body
of Capt. Yitzhak Fuchs, pilot
of the El Al cargo plane
which crashed in Amster-
dam last week, was iden-
tified there by Israeli foren-
sic experts working with
Netherlands investigation
teams.
His body, together with
that of the plane's flight en-
gineer, Gedalyah Sofer,
previously identified, was to
be flown back to Israel later
this week for burial here.
The body of 1st Officer Ar-
non Ohad has not yet been
identified, but the funerals
of the two men identified,
and a joint memorial service
for the three El Al members,
was expected to be held early
next week.
The funeral of Anat Levy
Salomon, wife of an El Al
security official in Amster-
dam, was held in the Holon
cemetery. She had been
returning to Israel as the
plane's sole passenger when
it crashed.