Word: kollek
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...wishes to Mormonize the people of Israel," declared 96 Israeli intellectuals in newspaper ads urging a halt to construction. The nation's two chief rabbis called for a mass rally against the center, and protests by black-hatted, ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have become commonplace at the site. Mayor Teddy Kollek, who approved the project, and the center's Mormon director have even received death threats. Last week 40 rabbis from communities outside Jerusalem joined the growing protest by picketing the office of Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...very closely with him and come to know him quite well. Neither I nor anyone else who has worked with him detected the slightest whiff of anti-Semitism in Larry's conduct in Israel or in the states. He is, in fact, admired and loved by Israelis from Teddy Kollek to the late Yigael Yadin, who helped Professor Stager obtain the permit to excavate at Ashkelon. Martin Peretz's implied comparison of Larry Stager with President Lowell and his hostility to Jewish students would have been worthy of the late well-known senator from Wisconsin. Marty's creativity is justly...
...Street as scores of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in long black coats and black hats stamped their feet, shouted "Messiah!" and sprayed champagne in the direction of Ehud Olmert, the city's new mayor. Five minutes away, shudders of a different sort reverberated through the campaign headquarters of Teddy Kollek as television announcers declared that a "political earthquake" had ended a remarkable career in public service. It is difficult to imagine Jerusalem without the rotund, irascible Kollek, who presided for nearly three decades over a transformation of the Holy City from a somnolent backwater bisected by barbed wire...
...Kollek had long been prepared to step down until Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared the race a referendum on his agreement with Yasser Arafat to begin limited Palestinian self-rule, and begged Kollek to run again. It was a mistake not even Kollek's legendary charm could reverse. Olmert wisely let the mayor's 82 years speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored...
Within hours of his victory, Olmert exacerbated Palestinian fears by affirming that "every Jew can acquire property anywhere in Jerusalem," an issue Kollek had resolutely tamped down. Anticipating that Jews would use such rhetoric to push for new settlements in Arab neighborhoods, Rabin swiftly retorted that such remarks "do great harm to the delicate fabric of relations." While it is the national government that sets Israeli policy on Jerusalem, the mayor's ability to maintain the delicate peace in this restive city is crucial...