Premier Manachem Begin will ask Energy and Infrastructure Minister Yitzhak Modai to see to it that no oil drilling will take place on Saturdays in the Ashdod drilling site. Begin intervened after Agudat Israel threatened to quit the coalition if “the desecration of the Sabbath” would not cease. The Aguda claimed that despite a coalition agreement, drilling work continued at the Ashdod field.
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