The World - News from Dec. 24, 1985
A tiny ultra-Orthodox Jewish party submitted a motion of no confidence in the Israeli government over its allowing the construction of a Mormon study center near Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ government is expected to easily defeat the parliamentary motion, proposed by the two-seat Agudat Israel Party. But Israel’s fragile national-unity coalition depends on small religious parties for its support. Some Orthodox Jews fear that the center, a $15-million facility of Utah’s Brigham Young University, will be used to convert Jews to the Mormon faith.
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