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Jerusalem (JTA) — Barely a
month after reaching a
historic agreement with the
Palestinians, Yitzhak
Rabin's Labor government is
beset by political tensions
that threaten its stability.
Mounting pressures from
the fervently religious Shas
party, the secularist Meretz
bloc and members of his own
Labor Party are combining
to endanger the prime min-
ister's Knesset majority.
Mr. Rabin's latest prob-
lems stem from two issues: a
decision by the High Court
of Justice voiding the
government's ad-
ministrative ban on the im-
port of non-kosher meat, and
the first reactions to the
state budget bill, which is
scheduled to be put to a vote
this week.
The High Court decision,
written by Justice Theodor
Orr and adopted unanimous-
ly by a panel of three
justices, held that the
government's desire to
assuage Shas' religious con-
cerns about the import of

the import business is to be
turned over to private com-
panies.
Justice Orr pointed out
that in practice it is easy to
buy non-kosher meat, which
is slaughtered and packed
locally, all over Israel.
Shas and the other Or-
thodox parties argue that
the High Court's decision
would constitute a change in
the religious "status quo" of
the country.
Because of this, Shas
argues, the government will
have to enact legislation to
"correct" the court's deci-
sion.
Shas recently removed
itself from the governing co-
alition, following a High
Court ruling that two of the
party's leaders step down
from their posts to face
charges of financial miscon-
duct.
The head of Shas' Knesset
delegation, member Shlomo
Benizri, declared over the
weekend that a law barring
the import of non- kosher
meat was a "condition" for

Kosher meat figures in Shas' coalition re entry.

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non-kosher meat was not
relevant to the legality of
the administrative ban.
The government had al-
ready decided on a broad
policy of privatization, the
court said, and under that
policy there is no real reason
why non-kosher meat should
not be allowed into the coun-
try.
"A country that maintains
both freedom of worship and
freedom of conscience cannot
prevent X from eating non-
kosher meat merely because
Y feels offended, because Y
wants all Jews to keep
kosher," Justice On- wrote
in his decision.
Meat importation has un-
til now been a government-
controlled monopoly in
Israel, and only kosher meat
was imported.
But now, for economic
reasons and because of a
broad policy change toward
privatization of businesses,

Shas' re-entry into the coali-
tion.
But Meretz, Labor's left-
wing and staunchly
secularist coalition partner,
says it will vigorously op-
pose such legislation.
Meretz cites the 1992
agreement under which the
coalition was formed. The
agreement stipulates that
any religious legislation
must have the approval of
all coalition partners.
Meretz Knesset member
Ran Cohen proposed that ex-
isting legislation on kashrut
supervision be tightened up
in order to assure the
kosher-eating public that
the liberalized import policy
will not lead to mistakes or
deliberate subterfuges in the
sale of meat.
Meanwhile, adding to the
prime minister's looming
troubles, several of his own
party members are voicing
dissent over the state budget