Mayor Teddy Kollek warned last night that Jews may become a minority in Jerusalem if the intensive development of the city continues, employing Arab manual laborers from the West Bank. Addressing an economic symposium, Mayor Kollek noted that 10,000 hotel rooms are to be built in Jerusalem over the next ten years. The main manpower building the hotels are Arabs from the West Bank and they will settle in the city and may become the majority, he said.
Kollek said there were 70,000 Arab residents of Jerusalem out of a population of 270,000.
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