Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem told Arab merchants doing business in the reunified sections of the city that they would have to pay the same taxes as all other business concerns in Israel have to pay. He told the grumbling merchants, however, that the new, higher rates would be introduced gradually. The Israeli taxes average out higher than the taxes assessed when East Jerusalem was in Jordanian hands.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, heeding the request of the mayor and leading citizens of Nablus, ordered the lifting of special restrictions imposed on that city after its merchants had heeded instructions from Amman radio and had shut their shops in observance of a general protest strike.
Curfew in Nablus was reduced to the same hours prevailing all through the West Bank area; Nablus shops that had been ordered shuttered were permitted to reopen, and permits to operate 65 Arab-owned buses were restored.
The Port of Gaza was opened to shipping yesterday for the first time since Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in June. The first shipment was a cargo of Gaza oranges bound for Yugoslavia aboard an Israeli freighter.
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