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said they wouldn't like to have haredi
neighbors.
The conflict between these two sec-
tions of the population has become
particularly sharp since the recent pas-
sage of the 1998 budget.
Thanks to the political clout of the
Orthodox political parties, who are an
essential element in the Netanyahu
coalition, the haredim have been
showered with a whole series of bene-
fits in this budget. For example, yeshi-
va students, who are exempt from mil-
itary service, will now be getting hous-

o one yet knows for sure
what caused the fire that
burned down Rehovot's
popular Herzl Cafe last
week, but since it was one of the few
local eating places open on Friday
night, most people here assume that it
was torched by the Orthodox haredim.
Violence, in any case, is not a one-
way street in the "religious war" that is
now raging in this country. For exam-
ple, several young
men in black
Orthodox garb
have recently been
beaten up by
toughs who made
it clear that they
hated haredim.
Of course most
Israelis -- whatev-
er their attitude
towards religion
— wouldn't resort
to violence against
the "other side."
But people here
are increasingly
hostile to those
whose life-style is
different from
their own. This
was reflected in a
recent Mina
Zemach poll pub-
lished by mass cir-
culation Yediot
Aharonot. She is
generally seen as
one of the coun-
try's most accurate Secular and religious Jews wait in line at the entrance to the
and respected pro- tunnel next to the Western Wall.
fessionals in the
field.
ing benefits that are denied to dis-
Some 60 percent of the black-hat
charged servicemen.
Orthodox (generally called haredim)
This measure has galled many peo-
respondents stated that they wouldn't
ple,
one of them being Finance
buy an apartment in a building where
Minister
Shmuel Slavin, who resigned
a significant percentage of the resi-
his
post
shortly
after the budget was
dents were secularists. And among the
passed.
latter, fully 69 percent of the people

