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- <text id=90TT3209>
- <title>
- Dec. 03, 1990: World Notes:Israel
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 79
- World Notes
- ISRAEL
- Pigheaded Protest
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Nonkosher butchers usually keep a low profile in Israel,
- supplying meats to Christians and nonobservant Jews. But last
- week about half a dozen butchers handed out free ham sandwiches
- in downtown Jerusalem, attracting dozens of amused takers while
- infuriating others.
- </p>
- <p> The giveaway was designed to protest a proposed ban on the
- sale of pork by Jewish businesses. The pork law was one of four
- concessions the government made to the small ultra-Orthodox
- Agudat Israel party last week in return for a coalition
- agreement. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir also promised to impose
- further restrictions on abortion, curb public transportation on
- the Sabbath, and outlaw certain forms of advertising deemed
- obscene by religious leaders.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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