Mormons threatened
NZPA-AFP Jerusalem The Israeli Parliament has voted down a motion of no confidence in the Government, brought by the Agudat Israel religious party in protest against the building of a Mormon centre in Jerusalem.
Only the two Members of Parliament from the small ultra-Orthodox group, one of four religious parties that are junior parties in the Government coalition, voted for the motion.
One of them, Rabbi Menachem Porusch, said afterwards that the party would not quit the 15-month-old coalition because it had no ministerial portfolio. The vote resulted from weeks of agitating by the Knesset’s 12-person “religious lobby” and unruly demonstrations in Jerusalem against the university complex, which will be built on Mount Scopus. Mormons in Israel also have received threatening mail and telephone calls, the local press says. During the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday' the Prime Minister, Mr Shimon Peres, satisfied most of the religious parties by offering to set up a ministerial committee to study the issue.
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