The World - News from July 22, 1985

Prime Minister Shimon Peres ordered Israel’s attorney general to investigate plans by a Jewish settlers’ town in the occupied West Bank to fire its Arab workers. The town council in Kiryat Arba agreed to dismiss the Arabs after Rabbi Meir Kahane’s extremist anti-Arab Kach movement gained significant strength in recent town elections. Nine Arabs work for the town, which overlooks Hebron, inhabited mostly by Palestinians. Peres asked Atty. Gen. Yitzhak Zamir to report on the legality of the plan to fire the Arab workers.