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Winning Was The
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New Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
faces a daunting task balancing the concerns
of religious and secular Jews
not to mention the city's Arabs.

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most apathetic Jerusalemites
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cerned) about the future of their
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sentially the city's policy-mak-
ing body. And here, because of
the pre-election deal he made
with the UTJ, matters appear
to be fairly clear.
Mr. Olmert will build his
coalition with the city's three re-
ligious lists: the two Orthodox
parties (UTJ and Shas) and the
modern Orthodox National Re-
ligious Party (NRP), which to-
gether command 13 council
seats. Added to the five seats
won by Mr. Olmert's own Unit-
ed Jerusalem Party, the new
coalition will command 18 of the
council's 31 seats — a re-
spectable majority.
The implications of this na-
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Ehud Olmert is embraced by an Orthodox supporter.

as well as local. First, it's im-
portant to understand that mu-
nicipal elections in Israel mean
two simultaneous ballots: one
for mayor, the other for the City
Council.
Ehud Olmert trounced Mr.
Kollek in the mayoral vote. The
reason for that result, in an elec-
tion that was expected to be a
close call, was that the chief
"spoiler" — the candidate of the
Orthodox United Torah Jewry
Party (UTJ) — dropped out at
the last minute and threw all
his support to Mr. Olmert, thus
securing the new mayor's vic-
tory.
Now Mr. Olmert's first order
of business is to build a coalition
on the City Council, which is es-

easy to predict. The Orthodox
will want to get as much as pos-
sible out of their temporary yet
growing power on the City
Council — temporary because
they were the largest bloc
of voters in the latest election
(nearly 90 percent of Orthodox
voters cast ballots), even though
they constitute only 35 percent
of the city's Jewish population;
growing because 52 percent of
the city's elementary-school
children are enrolled in Ortho-
dox schools, and the political
clout in the city will eventually
be in their hands.
But that's still well into the
future. If the next election (in
1998) turns out to be a contest
between religious and secular