The World - News from Aug. 22, 1985
In an attempt to halt the expansion of the Mormon church in Israel, the Internal Affairs Committee of the Knesset recommended that the government block completion of a Mormon academic center on the Mount of Olives. The center, planned by Brigham Young University, an institution of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been under construction for four years and is one-third complete. It has run into heavy opposition from Israel’s chief rabbis and Christian groups, who fear that it will become a center for proselytizing by the Mormons.
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