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Soccer Match Nets
Dual Wins For PLO
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Palestin-
ians in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip chalked up dual
victories in a sports match in
Jericho that was as much
about nationalism as it was
about soccer.
Responding to an invita-
tion from the Variety Club of
France to the "State of
Palestine," the Palestine
Liberation Organization
fielded a local soccer team
against a French team that
included such famous Fren-
ch veteran players such as
Michel Platini and Alain
Giresse.
The Palestinian team,
playing under the flag of the
PLO, beat France by a score
of 1-0.
The game took on added
significance in light of the
PLO's struggle to achieve
world recognition of its
claim to establish an in-
dependent state of Palestine.
Last month, Israel and the
PLO signed a mutual recog-
nition pact.
It took ushers more than a
half-hour to clear the field of
fans who surged across the
playing area before the
players, dressed in the PLO
colors, could kick off.
Spectators said the French
lost their game against the
Palestinians, in the presence
of some 10,000 enthusiastic
admirers, largely because of
the field. The rough, sandy
terrain is a mud bath in
winter and a dust bowl in
summer. By halftime,
players had churned the
dust into a thick fog that ob-
scured the other side of the
field.
The Frenchmen said they
found it difficult to play a
proper game in such a rough
makeshift pitch.
In Herzliya, the same
French team beat the Veter-
ans of Israel team by a 6-2
score.
The French said they
thought they had beaten the
Israeli side because the
Israeli players were con-
siderably older than their
own team members.
The secretary of the Israel
Football Association,
Ya'acov Arel, said later that
the association officially
opposed the match. Mr. Arel
was concerned that the game
against the Palestinians was
legitimizing the creation of a
Palestinian national team
playing for a recognized in-
dependent state that does
not exist.
Druse Spiritual Leader
Dies In The Galilee
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
spiritual leader of the Druse
community in Israel, one of
the most influential re-
ligious leaders in the Middle
East, died over the weekend
in the Galilee village of
Julis.
Sheik Amin Tarif, 95, had
ruled the Druse community
in Israel for the past 57
years. He was widely
respected also in Syria and
Lebanon, where most Druse
in the region live.
In a noteworthy gesture,
the Israeli government gave
Druse from Syria and Leb-
anon permission to attend
the funeral.
The Druse are ethnically
Arabs who split from Islam
in the 11th century to form a
new religion. Some 70,000
believers live in Israel, but
the majority of the Druse
community in the Middle
East, some 200,000 of them,
live in Lebanon and Syria.
Since the 1948 War of In-
dependence, the Druse have
sided with Israel in the con-
flict with the Palestinians.
Under the guidance of Tarif,
the Druse leadership gave
its approval in the early
1950s to enforcing com-
pulsory military service on
all Druse citizens — unlike
the Arab community, which
is exempt from military ser-
vice.
Sheik Tarif enjoyed wide-
spread popularity, which cut
across traditional rivalries
among the main families in
the Druse community. His
status in the community was
often compared to that of the
Lubavitcher rebbe with his
followers. Like the rebbe,
Sheik Tarif was regarded as
the binding force in the
community.
Knesset member Saleh
Tarif of Labor, a relative of
. the sheik's, said Sheik Tarif
was like a prophet in the
eyes of the community. ❑