About 2,000 landlords, including a considerable number of Arabs, today demonstrated in front of the Israel Parliament in protest against a proposed law to impose a new tax on property. They also demanded government permission for a rent increase.
The demonstration took place while Labor Minister Golda Myerson was reporting to Parliament that almost all the tent dwellings in which immigrants now live will be taken down by the end of this year. Defying police cordons guarding the approaches to the Parliament, the demonstrators surged into the square opposite the Parliament, thus breaking a law which was adopted last year prohibiting demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament.
Police, using a minimum of force, arrested four of the demonstrators. The presidium of the Parliament announced that it will receive a delegation of landlords tomorrow to hear their complaints.
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