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These events in the Holy City are only samples of a troubling increase in sectarian violence involving ultra-Orthodox Jews, many of them members of Israel's numerous Hasidic groups.* Ever since the founding of Israel in 1948, traditionalist Jews who cluster in the Mea Shearim or Geula neighborhoods of northern Jerusalem have often stoned passing automobiles on the Sabbath and otherwise vented their wrath on those who violate God's law. But the recent outbursts reflect a new militancy on the part of extremists and a fundamental change in the relations of the city's religious...
...ultra-Orthodox Jews have a birth rate that is three times the national average, and they also constitute the largest group moving into Jerusalem. As a result, they have been trying to take over areas near the overcrowded Mea Shearim and Geula sections, offering twice the market value to entice secular Israelis to sell their homes and threatening those who refuse to move. At least one family has been burned...
...humiliating expose was accompanied by a self-critical apology to readers from Publisher Henri Nannen, who the week before had blamed Heidemann and all but disavowed responsibility. Nannen, who founded the magazine in 1948, wrote, in the Latin once used by Roman Catholics in confessing their sins, "Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa "(my fault, my grievous fault). He explained the management's collective lapse of judgment as the product of "a bunker mentality." The magazine's renewed coverage of an episode that Nannen had hoped to forget was in fact forced by embittered employees, who for six days...
Consumer groups also oppose the bill, even though the Administration contends that it would lower prices. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel estimates that residential gas rates could drop as much as 5% in the first year under the mea sure, cheaper) that oil costs about $31 per bbl. (and more if crude is cheaper). But the Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, the main consumer antideregulation lobby, argues Says prices would go up, not down, by perhaps 67% within four years. Says Edwin Rothschild, assistant director, referring to an Administration argument: "They that that as much gas will be falling in price as will...
Mofaz told the court that according to another officer, the tough West Bank mea sures were sanctioned by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Mofaz's lawyer now has presented to the military court two memorandums that were written by Chief of Staff Eitan. Though the documents were not released by the court, a summary of their contents has been published in Israeli newspapers. In one memorandum, Eitan recommended expulsion from the West Bank for convicted demonstrators and stone throwers. He also called for "preventive arrests," harassment of suspected troublemakers, punishment for the parents of teen-age protesters and economic sanctions...