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Kollek Loses, But
Labor Holds Its Own

If Israel's municipal elections was a referendum
on the peace process, the results were mixed
even with . the change in Jerusalem.

LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

I

srael's municipal election re-
sults are being interpreted
as a big, surprise win for the
Likud, and a blow to Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin's cam-
paign to turn them into a vote
of confidence for his peace plan.
Exhibits A and B are Ehud
Olmert's victory over Teddy
Kollek in Jerusalem, and Roni
Milo's defeat of Avigdor Kaha-
lani in Tel Aviv.
"Am I a contented man
tonight? I am a very contented
man," said Likud leader Bin-
yamin Netanyahu. Said Mr. Ra-
bin: "I had hoped for a clear
message to be
sent, both do-
mestically and
to the world. I
can't say I'm
satisfied with
the results...and
I will not ignore
the political im-
plications."
With Labor
holding nation-
al power, the
Likud fighting
with itself, and
the Israel-PLO
peace accord
getting strong
popular support,
the Labor Party
was expected to
win over a large
number of cities.
Teddy Kollek
This did not
happen. The
Likud went into the election ml-
ing nearly twice as many local-
ities as Labor, and this
proportion was roughly main-
tained.
But a second look at the re-
sults, focusing on the major
cities, shows that the elections
weren't really such a big win for
the Likud, and that even with
Mr. Rabin sounding so discon-
solate, the Labor Party didn't
do badly after all.
Begin with Jerusalem. Ac-
cording to political arithmetic,
Teddy Kollek never should have
been elected mayor there in the
first place. He is a secular La-
borite in a city that is over-
whelmingly right-wing and
religious, a stronghold for the
Likud and the religious parties
during Knesset elections.
Yet Jerusalemites kept Mr.
Kollek in office for 28 years be-

cause of his unique abilities and
charisma. He lost badly this
time to Mr. Olmert, as the re-
ligious slates threw their sup-
port to the Likud at the last
minute.
But everyone knows Mr.
Kollek was really beaten only
by his age. That the Likud was
able to defeat him only when
he'd reached 82 is nothing for
them to cheer about.
The Likud is also claiming
Roni Milo's victory in Tel Aviv
as a win for the party. That's
odd. After the results were in,
Mr. Milo, who ran on an inde-
pendent ticket,
said the local
Likud faction
would be last in
line — after La-
bor, Meretz, and
the religious list
- when it came
time for him to
form a city coun-
cil coalition.
"If the party
chairman (Ne-
tanyahu) had
not linked my
name to the
Likud's in their
advertisements,
I could have won
easier," said Mr.
Milo. "He hurt
my campaign
with his involve-
ment."
The key to
Mr. Milo's victory was the dis-
tance he placed between him-
self and the party, and he says
his first official act as mayor will
be to resign his seat as a Likud
Knesset member.
Israel's third biggest city,
Haifa, has always been a work-
er's town, loyal to the Labor
Party, and so it remained, as re-
tired army general Amram
Mitzna won the mayoralty by a
3-1 margin, taking over from
the retired Aryeh Gurel.
Israel's fourth largest city,
Holon, turned out a Likud in-
cumbent in favor of a Labor
Party challenger, as did the
number five city, Netanya. In
Rishon Lezion, Israel's sixth
most populous city, the Labor
Party mayor was re-elected.
The Likud claimed victory in
a number of mid-size cities —
such as Beersheba, Herzliya