(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Eight Jewish councillors were elected to the new city government.
The Socialist and Left labor groups will have a majority in the new city council. The ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel party suffered defeat in the elections, losing about fifty per cent, of its previous vote.
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