12—Friday, December 24, 1971 From $49.50 QUIST It's Nice To Deal With Joe Nhitkin's DEXTER CHEVROLET 20811 W. 8 Mile Southf,eld S. Telegraph 534-1400 Our Pro-Rai Le TO Yaw: BITTER SERVICE! 4 TEL AVIV (JTA)—The immigra- tion of Jews from the Soviet Union has increased to such an extent that it is putting a severe strain on Israel's housing resources, ab- sorption ministry circles said this week. Louis Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency, told a Labor Party meeting that 2,000 Soviet Jewish emigres have arrived so far this month. He estimated that the total Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union this year would be about 12,000. Absorption min- istry officials said that if the present rate of influx continues it may be necessary to tempo : racily house two childless fami- lies in a single three room flat. They said that arrangement would continue until smaller flats are made available for couples without children. About one-third of the emigres come from the Soviet Georgian WARREN 9 MILE & WIN DYKE PLEASANT RIDGE TORINO 500 2 DR. H.T. DEMO AUTO. TRANS. BODY SIDE MLDG POWER STEERING BUMPER GUARDS AM RADIO 8 CYL. ENG. VINYL TRIM At McDONALD FORD FARM a 4240 W. 7 MILE — AT LODGE EXPRESSWAY OPEN MON. & THURS. TM 9 — ALL DAY SAT. CALL TODAY — 341-3800 Republic, but the focal point of emigration will soon shift further eastward, according to Gen. Uzzi Narkiss, director of the Jewish Agency's immigration department. Narkiss said that Jews from Bokhara in central Asia may be the next group allowed to leave Russia in large numbers. His re- marks confirmed a report from Moscow published here last week by the Soviet journalist Victor Louis that B'okharan Jews would follow the Georgians. Like the Georgian and other Soviet Jews, the Bokharan Jews are townsmen not used to agricul- tural work. Large numbers of them settled in Palestine in the early 1920s, centering in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The latter city has a Bokharan quarter adjacent to the Mea Shearim quarter. The Bokharans who settled here 50 years ago were strictly Orthodox. Narkiss said that to meet the influx of new immigrants, 10,000 homes should be built in Beer- sheba, the Negev capital, where there is no shortage of jobs. According to reports from Jew- ish sources in the Soviet Union, Jewish prisoners in the USSR will stage a one-day hunger strike to- day, the anniversary of the sen- tences banded down in the first Leningrad hijack trial. The prisoners have asked Jews in Israel to observe a hunger strike on the same date. Dr. Benjamin Halevy, a Knesset- member of the Gahal faction, has asked the government to grant automatic citizenship to all Jewish political prisoners in the USSR on the anniversary date. There are about 40 Jews presently in Soviet jails and labor camps. Katya Palatnik, the younger sis- ter of Raiza Palatnik, who is serving a three-year sentence in a forced labor camp for alleged anti-Soviet activities, has been granted an exit visa to go to Israel, it was reported in London. The information came from the "Committee of 35," an activist group, which appealed to the Soviet Embassy for Raiza Palat- nik's release on humanitarian grounds. Her sister was granted a visa after a five-day hunger strike in Moscow, a spokesman for the com- mittee told the JTA. In Lima, Peru, 75 leading Latin American intellectuals adopted unanimously a resolution denounc- ing the Soviet Union's discrimina- tory policies against its Jewish citizens. The Conference of Intel- lectuals on the Jewish Minority in the USSR, meeting here earlier this month, also called upon the Soviet Union to permit Jews to emigrate to Israel or any other country of their choice. Among those attending were five former cabinet ministers of various coun- tries and intellectuals from 17 Latin American nations including 35 from Peru.