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of the more successful ones have left
for jobs in the center of the country.
But Ben-Gurion University, with
more than 12,000 students, contin-
ues to grow, and more companies are,
building in the area. A prime topic
among university social planners is
their effort to dissuade the govern-
ment from building a hazardous
waste dump near Beersheba, arguing
that in two decades it would imperil
the population.
Driving back toward Jerusalem,
ascending the winding roads, one
feels the mood change in the thin-
ning air. I am returning to the city
where cosmic issues take precedence
over daily ones, where the ancient
stones are steeped in holiness but too
many of the people lack compassion
for each other.
If there is good news it is that, in
the wake of the Rabin assassination,
the religious-secular divide has grown
so alarming that some people have c
begun to act out of genuine concern
for the fate of the country. In the last
year, dozens of dialogue groups have
started for Orthodox and secular
teens as well as adults seeking to
bridge the gap; an experimental ele-
mentary school composed of secular
and religious children and teachers is
flourishing; and growing numbers of
secular intellectuals are studying
Jewish texts to reclaim their tradi-
tion.
Most of these efforts are based in
Jerusalem, where the need is greatest,
as a model for the rest of the coun-
try. What may work best are pro-
grams stressing basic tolerance,
rather than any romantic effort to
accept the other's views. Mostly miss-
ing from this equation, though, are c=:
the haredim, the most broad-minded
of whom are prepared only_to debate
the others, not engage in serious dia-
logue.
The Mideast peace talks, as fragile
as they are, have a glimmer of hope
because Palestinians and Israelis may
come to appreciate a need to tolerate
each other, recognizing that fate
made them neighbors and neither
side is moving away. The prospect of
seeing similar accommodation
between haredim and secular Jews
seems more remote, though, since
they only have each other to live
with and to blame.
Only when the mourning over
ancient Jerusalem's stones turns to
compassion for the modern city's
flesh and blood will there be cause
here for rejoicing. ❑

