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...Mandate, be repealed. His proposal is on the agenda for Cabinet action, but government watchers predict that if any decision is taken, it will be to keep the laws. "If Kenan got $1,400 of public money for his play, then I have a right to censor it," says Knesset Member Mordecai Surkiss, who heads the parliamentary committee that deals with censorship...
Announcement of the arrests created a furor in Israel. Angry neighbors scrawled "Spy" on Vered's front door and threatened to burn down Kupfer's house. Conservative Knesset Member Shmuel Tamir turned the incident against members of the coalition government who have been urging that Israel return some of the occupied territories in exchange for peace with the Arabs. Said Tamir: "Israeli youth hears daily from persons in high office that Jewish settlement [of occupied territories] is oppressive colonialism. Such preaching finally pushed young people into opposing the 'oppressors.' " Left-wing spokesmen retorted that Israeli youth...
...which has never had more than a hundred members, also believes in restoring Arab rights to at least part of Palestine. The spy arrests dramatized the existence of an element on the left that is opposed to the very existence of Israel. Editor Uri Avneri, who sits in the Knesset as leader of the radical reformist New Force Party, worries that more young Israelis might be drawn to this extreme view. "We are entering a dangerous period," he says, "partly because we have a Prime Minister who does not even recognize that there is a problem. She has lost...
...religious law the two children became mamzerim (children of an adulterous union) and ineligible to wed anyone but other mamzerim or converts. The efforts of Hanoch and Miriam to marry their sweethearts in a valid religious ceremony became a celebrated case. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became their advocate. Some Knesset members introduced bills which would allow civil marriage in Israel for the first time; the National Religious Front promised to bolt Golda Meir's coalition if such a law were passed, and even Mrs. Meir threatened to resign unless the case was resolved...
...Referees has decided on a more practical tactic. Last April, after a record total of 42 referees were injured in 175 riots and fights during the season, the union went on strike. "Soccer fields have become battlefields," Labor Party Member Shoshona Arbeli said in a speech before the Knesset (parliament). "Human life is in danger. Hatred is fomented between one town and another. The referees are right to strike...