Premier David Ben Gurion today received the Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamzrachi Ministers who asked that a bill now before the Cabinet on the raising and sale of pork in Israel be worded so as to give municipalities the right to ban both the breeding of pigs and the sale of pork, under pain of their parties quitting the Cabinet.
Since the matter was so serious. Mr. Ben Gurion told the Orthodox members of his cabinet that he wanted a few days, past the time of the next Cabinet session, before replying. The bill currently proposed in the Cabinet is one which would give the municipalities the right to restrict the raising and sale of pork, but not to ban such activities.
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