Mayor Olmert's

erusalem's mayor sees holy city as the
testing grouna' for peaceful coexistence.

HARRY KIRSBAUM

Staff Writer

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.hud Olmert, mayor of Jerusalem, has a vision for
the city he has presided over for seven years. By
2017, 50 years after the Six-Day War, he said .
.....: . : . 'Jerusalem will be a city of-1 million people, still
7iT.percent
Jewish, but much stronger economically.
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"The.: high-tech industries - will add strength and Vitality to
the city. A mass-transit system, a network of highways and
tunnels connecting the city from all sides, will turn Jerusalem
into a modern urban center,'' Olmert said. "It can prove to .
be a metropolitan area where different nationalities and dif-
ferent populations can live within a ,framework of peaceful
Coexistence.
' "This is the challenge. Jerusalem is the testing.ground."
The always candid, sometimes controversial mayor spoke
•• the jewish Neip..c from his Birmingham hotel room just •
hours before
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Defense - _Forces annual dinner, Nov. 30 at Congregation
'.'..:• Shaarey Zedek in Southfield,

