Word: kollek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sizable numbers of nonpracticing Jews apparently resent the religious laws that apply to everybody, Aloni appeared to have gained at least two seats in the Knesset for her small civil rights party, whose platform called for civil marriage and divorce in Israel. Jerusalem's widely known Mayor Teddy Kollek was also reelected, but a boycott by eligible Arab voters cut into his total...
...Said Yehezkel Shemesh, a Jerusalem restaurant owner: "We are all one mishpocheh [family]. When one boy dies, we all grieve together." Last Wednesday morning weeping mourners crowded temporary military cemeteries to attend mass memorial services. In Jerusalem, which bore more than 10% of Israel's casualties, Mayor Teddy Kollek visited the homes of the bereaved families...
...still scarce. The army had mobilized most of Israel's private commercial trucks, virtually paralyzing the country's internal transportation system. Goods and supplies have piled up at warehouses. With most of the working-age male population still in the army, labor shortages have become severe. Mayor Kollek has had to recruit high school pupils to work in Jerusalem's bakeries to ensure adequate supplies of bread. A huge drop in retail sales and in the tourist trade (hotel occupancy in October was 75% below normal) markedly reduced local tax collections. To meet its payroll, Jerusalem...
...Like Kollek, many of the city's Jews bravely insist that "we can take a lot worse than this." In fact, they are just now becoming aware of the severe austerity that faces them. One government economist estimated that the war cost Israel more than $4 billion and has wiped out the country's projected gross national product growth for the year. To help finance the war, the government has required everyone to buy government bonds in an amount equal to roughly 10% of taxable income. Most likely, that kind of forced saving will prove to be only...
...government actually "suggested" to the kidnapers that it would alter its policy in exchange for the lives of the hostages. It was made because Austria, as one government official explained it, "was gradually becoming a battleground" in the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict. Jerusalem's Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek protested in a telegram to Kreisky: "Anyone who applies different standards to Jews than those he applies to others stands accused of antiSemitism, whatever his origin." But the Chancellor, a nonpracticing Jew, denied that his action was discriminatory. He pointed out the Schönau facility was allowed to exist...