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Article: Business as usual in Tel Aviv

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March 14, 1997
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MICHAL YUDELMAN
Jerusalem Post
03-14-1997
IF the Shabbat wars in Jerusalem ebb and flow through Bar-Ilan Street, in Tel Aviv the symbol under which the secular faithful march is ... the cheeseburger.

Secular Jerusalemites look to the tireless Meretz councilman, Ornan Yekutieli. Tel Avivians have businessman Omri Padan, the director and franchise owner of McDonald's in Israel.

In Jerusalem the battle is over ideology, in Tel Aviv it's mostly business, with a bit of principle thrown in for seasoning.

The philosophical question debated by Tel Aviv's '90s intellectual is whether the city shall have cheeseburger on Shabbat or not.

Padan has been waging a steadfast war against the attempts of ...

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