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community. Chief Rabbi Yisrael
Meir Lau dismissed the fan club
as "utter madness," adding that
if any teachers were behind it,
they should be fired.
Education Minister Hammer
said: "This is a most severe and
negative case, and it must be
dealt with, together with any
other cases which are found that
resemble it. The religious educa-
tional system is filled with dis-
gust at murder in general, and
at the murder of the Prime Min-
ister in particular."
Yet, Mr. Hammer added, "I
have no doubt that the behaviour
of these girls does not stem from
religious-nationalistic motives,
but from stupidity."
In a lead editorial, Hatsofeh,
the NRP daily paper, wrote:
"Leftist elements are trying to
blame the state religious educa-
tional system and the religious
public as if they are responsible,
if not directly then indirectly, for
the assassination...It is unfortu-
nate that the state media, tv and
radio, which 'discovered' the
three unruly girls, also gave the
story wide coverage, out of all
proportion and without thor-
oughly researching the matter."
Perhaps, but I know Orthodox
Zionist families who refuse to
send their children to state reli-
gious schools because they see
them as too extreme. Their
dilemma goes back to the mid-
seventies. Then, the Gush Emu-
nim settlement movement took
over both the schools and the
B'nei Akiva youth movement.
Led by rabbi-politicians, they en-
shrined the "redemption" of the
Land as Zionism's be all and end
all, the key to a Messianic era.
But this made it acceptable to
brand Yitzhak Rabin and Shi-

mon Peres as "traitors" for trad-
ing territory for peace. Bumper
stickers threatening the Prime
Minister's life were common-
place. In Kiryat Alba, the settler
suburb of Hebron, a public park
was named for Meir Kahane,
who had been banned from the
Knesset as a racist; the grave of
Baruch Goldstein, who gunned
down 29 Muslims at prayer, be-
came a place of pilgrimage.
Did this all change in the
shock of the Rabin assassination?
Apparently not. Yigal Amir's
family displays no shame. After
the Supreme Court rejected his
appeal, the assassin's father
blamed the verdict on lousy
lawyers. Yigal's teenage sister
protested at his "harsh" prison
conditions. Ma'ariv reported that
his mother has received hun-
dreds of letters of support.
When a group of peace cam-
paign.ers went to Kiryat Gat to
mount a vigil in Mr. Rabin's
memory, they were greeted by
dozens of locals screaming: "Shu-
lamit Aloni is next on the list!"
Ms. Aloni, now retired, is the for-
mer Meretz leader who warned
Israelis against the spread of
"Khomeinist" fundamentalism. ( 11\
The walls of the Gross High
School were decorated with
"Peres is next!" and' eath to the
Arabs!" graffiti.
Kiryat Gat is not a West Bank
settlement or a city of yeshivot.
It is a mixed secular-religious
town, expanding rapidly with an
influx of Russians and where In- -N
tel is building a huge new high-
tech factory.
And it is where three girls in
straw hats proudly keep Yigal
Amir scrap books.

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Losing Ground In
School Prayer Fight

JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

ome congressional advo-
cates of school prayer have
tried to wrap the issue in a
veneer of generic-sounding
pieties. But not Rep. Ernest Jim
Istook, R-Okla., the man picked
by House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
R-Ga., last year to lead the charge
for a "religious equality" amend-
ment to the Constitution.
Mr. Istook is blunt about his
goals: He wants an amendment
specifically endorsing school
prayer. He agrees that even "stu-
dent-initiated" prayer is bound to
be sectarian in nature, and he sees
nothing wrong with efforts to con-

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vert Jews and others in the
schools and the workplace.
That unbending position may
set back GOP efforts to pass a c_"
spruced-up amendment this
summer, a push that few ob-
servers expect to succeed even
without internecine fighting be-
tween school prayer supporters.
But it also reflects a new mili-
tancy among the most conserva-
tive members of the House and
a new openness about their sec- L:
tarian goals; as a result, Jewish
leaders worry, the center in the

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