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NEWS
Tiberius Mayor: Cinema Will Not Open on Shabbos
By L.S. Wasserman
Following an attempt by the Tiberius Municipality to upset the status
quo by opening the Yad Shitreet Cinema on Shabbos, Mayor Zohar Oved
declared, "The cinema will not open on Shabbat."
The pledge was made during the course of a phone conversation with
Degel HaTorah Councilman Rabbi David Ochana in which the Mayor denied
any intentions of allowing the cinema to operate on Shabbos.
Tiberius residents were incensed following a media report, based on a
ranking city official, that the municipality planned to allow the
cinema to open on Shabbos. The move was part of an effort to revive
Yad Shitreet, which has been largely desolate — even on weekdays
— for the past three years.
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