Rabbi Amram Blau, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta, has been released from jail after 21 days, Rabbi Blau, together with Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor, Moshe Porush, however, must still stand trial before a magistrate’s court, on charges of disturbing the peace on the Sabbath, a charge growing out of earlier attempts to block the streets of this city to vehicular traffic on the Sabbath.
Meanwhile, members of a special municipal committee for an “armistice” met with Rabbi Blau in connection with still another source of friction. This one relates to a club and playground on the outskirts of Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim section, operated by the Israel Working Women’s Association. Members of Rabbi Blau’s sect have demonstrated against this club on the grounds that it would exert a corrupting influence on their children.
Rabbi Blau, in his talks with the special committee, indicated that the Neturei Karta would cease its attacks if a high wall were erected around the club to hide what he termed its “goings on.” But the working women’s group has made it known that it opposes any changes in the structure or operation of the club.
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