Premier Menachem Begin assured the Aguda Israel that his government would honor all the promises he made to the ultra-Orthodox party as a condition for its support of his coalition. Begin met Monday with the party’s four-man Knesset faction after the Aguda’s ruling Council of Sages displayed impatience over the government’s alleged delays in implementing their demands.
The Sages reportedly concentrated on the controversial archaeological dig at the City of David in Jerusalem. They are demanding that the government invoke Article 45 of its coalition agreement which would give the Chief Rabbinate Council sole legal authority to determine whether the excavations involve the desecration of an ancient Jewish cemetery, as the Orthodox establishment contends.
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