71.   The religious parties have said that they, too, will keep quiet.

72.   The religious parties, for their part, have threatened to quit the government if the bill is not passed.

73.   The three religious parties have different constituencies and agendas, but all strive to win government financing for their yeshivas and other institutions and for housing.

74.   There were repeated calls for revenge from religious parties sympathetic to the Taliban regime.

75.   They conditionally accepted indictment of the leader of the Shas religious party.

76.   This would leave the religious parties to fill the role.

77.   Twenty-two percent of all seats in the Israeli parliament are now occupied by religious parties.

78.   To some religious parties, of course, the idea of giving up one inch of holy land is anathema.

79.   Two religious parties went to the Supreme Court to demand an injunction.

80.   Unlike other religious parties, Shas has taken more flexible positions on questions of peace, a stance that could ease its way into a Labor-led coalition.