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Excessive Fees for Academicians
Exits Exacted From Jews by USSR

Knesset Votes $31,500,000 Budget
Funds to Help Israel's Impoverished

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knesset finance committee took an
important step in the war on poverty by authorizing the release of
$31,500,000 in frozen development budget funds to be used mainly to
help the poor in Israeli cities and towns and to provide better housing
for young couples with large families. The committee recommended
further that the government find additional funds to apply toward
solving the twin problems of poverty and the shortage of housing.
Absorption Minister Nathan Peled addressed himself to those
problems in a radio interview 'and replied to critics who charged
discrimination against immigrants of Oriental orgin. Peled, a mem-
ber of Mapam, said all immigrants were entitled to the same assist-
ance and benefits regardless of their countries of origin. He said the
size of apartments allocated to newcomers was determined by the
size of the families only and by no other criteria. Peled said that most
housing aid to immigrants was in the form of mortgages which were
repaid to the state after a number of years.
Peled conceded that there were serious social problems in
Israel. "The Black Panthers have given expression to a problem
that has always existed," he said, referring to the militant Jerusalem
slum youths who have been demonstrating against poverty and squalid
living conditions. Peled agreed that social problems deserved high
priority 'and admitted that mistakes have been made in the past
such as spending far too much on public buildings while neglecting'
the housing needs of large families.
Police meanwhile are investigating a fire in the Musrara slums
last Thursday evening that destroyed a shack used by the Black
Panthers for their headquarters. A police spokesman said the in-
vestigation was searching for evidence of arson and promised a
report "in the next few days." Angry youths said the fire had
destroyed all documents as well as several suits of clothing the
Panthers received recently from the United States.
Mayor Teddy Kollek was one of the first to arrive at the scene
of the blaze Thursday. He said the municipality offered to help repair
the damage but that he had not been approached for compensation
for the loss of belongings or help in finding the Panthers a new
building.
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Don't Appease
the Tanthers,7
Kollek Warns

JERUSALE M (JTA) — Mayor
Teddy Kollek accused Premier
Golda Meir and the Jewish Agency
chairman, Louis Pincus, of, in ef-
fect, bending over backwards to
appease the militant "Black Pan-
thers" after having ignored for
years the problems of poverty that
gave rise to Panther agitation.
Kollek disapproved of the inter-
views Mrs. Meir and Pincus re-
cently granted spokesmen for the
disaffected Jerusalem slum youths.
He said that when Panther leader
Eddie Malka was asked to come
for - a job interview, Malka checked
his calendar and said he couldn't
make it 'because he had to see sev-
eral Knesset members and cabinet
m _ inisters.
Kollek assailed Pincus and the
Jewish Agency leadprship for al-
legedly ignoring Jerutajem's social
problems until

TEL AVIV (JTA)—While Russian Jewish immigrants continue to arrive in Israel,
Soviet authorities are exacting a high price for allowing them to depart, according to a
telephone report received from Moscow Monday night. The informant said that Jews
holding academic 'degrees must pay sums of $5,500 to $6,600 to compensate the Soviet
government for the free education they received. Beginning next month, Jews leaving
for Israel will not be able to take along their furniture or any single Wonging valued at
more than $275, according to the report.
The JTA learned, meanwhile, that five Jewish academicians who participated in
recent hunger strikes in Riga and Vilna demanding action on their applications for exit
permits have been informed by Soviet authorities that they will not get visas. Their
names were given as Lieberman, Goldberg, Brisky, Moreh and Fedder.
In New York, a Physicians' Ad Hoc Committee on Soviet Jewry was formed in an
attempt to obtain medical aid for Ruth Aleksandrovich, the Jewish nurse completing a one-
year term in Riga for "anti-Soviet activities."
The committee will ask President Nixon and United Nations Secretary General
Thant to intervene personally on Miss Aleksandrovich's behalf.

Agnew Skips Israel on M.E. Visit

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Vice President Spiro Agnew will
not visit Israel on his way back from Korea, though he
plans to stop for two days in Saudi Arabia and two in
Kuwait. The ,State Department characterized his visit to
those Arab countries as an "official" one but declines
to comment on reasons why Israel was being skipped.
The vice presidential office in Washington said that it
could not preclude last minute changes in the itinerary,
which was being arranged from Agnew's traveling head-
quarters in the Far East. The office explained that the
stops in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were "good will" stops
to give Agnew an opportunity personally to convey the
regards of President Nixon to heads of state.
Published reports here attributed the Agnew visit to
Saudi Arabia to the recent visit of King Feisal and his
invitation for a high American official to return the call.
Israeli Embassy officials here say that the vice presi-
dent was extended an open invitation during his talks with
Ambassador Itzhak Rabin about six months ago to visit
Israel, but that no reply or further inquiries had been
received.

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NEW YORK (JTA)—All nine Jewish
defendants in Kishinev were sentenced
Wednesday to labor-camp terms ranging
from one to 5 years, Jewish sources here
reported. The heaviest penalty was
meted out to David Iserovich Chernoglaz,
a 31-year-old agronomist with a wife and
year-old daughter who was arrested last
June 15.
Anatoly Moiseyevich Goldfeld was sen-
tenced to four years; the prosecution had
asked for four. Aleksander Galperin re-
ceived a 2 3/2-year term. Hillel Zalmano-
vich Shur, who went on a hunger strike
and was said by the prosecution to de-
serve three years in prison, received a
two-year term.
Two-year terms were also meted out
to Abraham Trakhtenberg, Semeon
Abramovich Levit, Arkady Voloshin and
Gari Kirshner. David Rabinovich got a
one-year term.
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`Dream Come True' for Zand in Israel Amendment on

TEL AVIV (JTA)—A breathless Mikhail Zand arrived here by plane the night of June 27 with
a group of other Russian Jews from Vienna and said over and over again: "I can hirdly believe it—
my dream has come true." He was accompanied by six members of his family—his wife and two
children, his mother, his sister and his sister's daughter. The Russian Jewish Orientalist scholar had
undergone unusual mistreatment even for Soviet Jews seeking to leave for Israel, including a
suspension of his visa on the eve of a scheduled departure. Academic groups in the United States
and Europe had appealed to Soviet authorities on his behalf and he was again given exit documents
earlier in the week.
Speaking to reporters in good Hebrew, Dr. Zand, who will be a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University,
said: "Is it true? This morning I was still in Moscow and now I am at home, and alive."
He told reporters of his experiences in Soviet jails, of ill treatment, of his hunger strike and
efforts by his Russian jailers to feed him forcibly. After he was dismissed from his job, he said, he
was banned from publishing any research studies. But, he 'added, "I am here and I feel good."
(Prof. Herbert Paper of the University of Michigan, who conducted the campaign to assure
Prof. Zand's being granted exit visas for himself and his family to go to Israel, expressed thanks to
Senator Robert Griffin and his staff for their intercession and their constand contact with the State
Department in Zand's behalf.
(Senator Griffin and his chief assistant in charge of foreign matters, Peter Teeley, said they
were gratified with the results of efforts and credited the State Department with having made frequent
inquiries in the case).
Prof. Zand believes the struggle for Soviet Jews must concentrate exclusively on their right to
emigrate to Israel, not merely to alleviate the current repression of Jewish cultural and religious
freedom in the USSR.
In his first public appearance, Zand claimed that the only hope for the spiritual survival of
Soviet Jewry was in emigration to 'Israel.
Addressing a session of the Zionist General Council, Zand said he took issue with a group of
Western rabbis who had suggested the slogan, "Let My People Live" as a corollary of "Let My People
Go." He rejected 'the implications of the former on grounds that the Jewish people could ever live
as Jews in the Soviet Union.

Suez Included
in Foreign Aid

An amendment to the foreign aid
bill to allocate $50,000,000 for the
reopening of the Suez Canal was
approved by the U.S. House of
Representatives Foreign Relations
Committeee Tuesday.
The amendment, co-sponsored by
Rep. William Broomfield of Michi-
gan and William Moorehead of
Pennsylvania, calls for use of ex-
cess Egyptian currency for this
purpose, 'provided any action in
that direction does not affect
Israel's security.
Congressman Br oo infield in-
formed The Jewish News that Is-
rael's approval to such action is
imperative under the proposed
amendment in order to assure that
genuine peace negotiations will not
be affected.
The excess U.S. currency avail-
able in Egypt has reached $250,-
000,000, Rep. Broomfield said.

