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Like Lorincz, a member of the Agudat Israel Party, most Israelis are appalled and ashamed by the recent epidemic of white-collar corruption in the Jewish state. A few cynically shrug it off as the predictable result of Israel's gradual shift away from the zealous Utopian socialism of its founders. No one, however, is ignoring the crimes and the accusations of crimes, which range from bribes of refrigerators and TV sets slipped to government workers to the outright theft of millions of dollars. Psychiatrist Hillel Klein argues that the shock of the scandals is particularly hard...
Heresy! Ben-Gurion himself seemed surprised at the furor that broke when his speech was reported in the Israeli press. Heresy, cried the Orthodox. The Mizrahi Party accused him of attacking the basic beliefs of Judaism. The ultraOrthodox Agudat Israel Party introduced in the Knesset a motion of no confidence...
...Mizrahis back into the coalition government at the last minute and forestalled the possibility that Ben-Gurion and his Cabinet would have to resign. Foreign Minister Golda Meir persuaded Ben-Gurion not to make matters worse by engaging in a long scriptural argument on the Knesset floor with Agudat's white-bearded Rabbi Isaac Meir Levin. With several groups, including the Communists, abstaining, Biblical Scholar Ben-Gurion handily won his vote of confidence-61 to 6. But it was still a lesson in what every politician is supposed to know: that any utterance bearing on religion more specific than...
...Bezalel National Museum of Israel (TIME, Feb. 8), the offer was quickly accepted, and plans were made to display the 50-odd pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city of less religious importance for Orthodox Jews, Rose threatened that unless the sculpture goes to Jerusalem...
This week, the orthodox Agudat Israel Party has a bill before the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to ban all sales of pork to Jews. Other Knesset members discussed importing more kosher meat on the free market; they were confident that the sale of pork would then dwindle...