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Jerusalem (JTA) — A much-
anticipated Michael Jackson
concert has been reschedul-
ed from a Saturday night to
a Monday at the insistence
of the fervently Orthodox,
who feared a massive viola-
tion of the Sabbath by people
traveling before sundown to
the Saturday concert.
The superstar's tour pro-
ducer, Marcel Avram, ex-
plained at a press conference
that the change was spurred
by "our wish to respect the
sentiments of the religious
community and not to
desecrate the Sabbath."
The concert is planned for
September 20 in Tel Aviv's
Hayarkon Park.
The fervently Orthodox
community had vehemently
protested another recent
Saturday night concert in
Tel Aviv by the rock group
Guns'N'Roses.
The incident was a key fac-
tor in the decision by a
fervently Orthodox rab-
binical authority to
withdraw a certificate of
kashrut from Pepsi Cola,
which sponsored the
Guns'N'Roses concert and is
also sponsoring the Jackson
tour. Pepsi still holds two

other valid kosher cer-
tificates here.
The change in the Jackson
concert schedule will not af-
fect the kashrut decision,
sources said.
Israel is the eighth stop of
the second half of Mr.
Jackson's world tour,
scheduled to begin in Hong
Kong in August and end in
November in New Delhi.

Tickets reportedly will cost
between 88 and 105 shekels,
or roughly $32 to $36, lower
than the $50 average they
will cost on the rest of the
tour.
Meanwhile, another rock
star, Bob Dylan, arrived this
week in Israel for a three-
concert tour and made the
news when the passport offi-
cer at Ben-Gurion Airport
refused to give him special
treatment, forcing him stand
in line to have his passport
processed. Mr. Dylan re-
portedly signed autographs
while he waited in line.

Later, he was denied entry
to a rear door of his hotel by
a security guard who did not
recognize him. Mr. Dylan
was last here on a concert
tour in 1987.

Israel Defense Force
Issues Regulations

Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Israel
Defense Force has issued
new regulations banning
discrimination against gay
men and lesbians in the
army, further liberalizing
what was already a com-
paratively tolerant policy
toward homosexuals.
The army did not in the
past exclude gay men and
lesbians from the army, but
the IDF has been accused of
restricting homosexuals
from jobs requiring high
security, in addition to other
discriminatory practices.
Under the new regula-
tions, gay men and lesbians
will be able to serve in any
army unit, including those
requiring the highest securi-
ty, the IDF spokesman an-
nounced late last week.
Recruits for such positions
will still have to pass the
usual security clearance.
The new orders also apply
to civilian employees in the
IDF, the spokesman said.
The Israeli army has never

asked recruits if they were
gay or kicked out soldiers
whose homosexuality
became known. But prior to
the new rules, it did order
psychological examinations
for soldiers whose homosex-
uality was disclosed.
That procedure will now be
dropped, army officials said.
The new Israeli regula-
tions come as the United
States continues to grapple
with the issue of homosex-
uality in its armed forces. In
fact, a group organized by
Congress came to Israel this
past spring to study its poli-
cies.
The Israeli revision in
policy is the result of a re-
examination of army prac-
tices ordered by Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
During the hearings, a
senior Israeli scientist de-
scribed how he had been
forced out of a top-secret
research program after his
homosexuality became
known.

