8 Friday, June 20, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Bulk of Jewish Agency Budget Geared for Aliya SAVE $100 or more on IBM OLIVETTI Add 'n Type SCM 342-7800 399-8333 MORRIS BUICK IS THE GUY Is THE BUY You Get More Buick For Less Money ! AT MORRIS BUICK 14500 W. 7 Mile AT LODGE X-WAY 342-7100 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Leon Duizin, Jewish Agency treasurer, presented to the fourth annual assembly of the Jewish Agency a $541.9 million budget for the first fiscal year which began last April 1, a budget $150 mil- lion below that he presented last year. The largest single alloca- tion was for aliya and ab- sorption for which the Dul- zin budget provided almost $98 million. He said that fig- ure was based on an annual aliya of 45,000 newcomers but he acknowledged that present forecasts, based on a heavy drop in immigration this year, were considerably lower. He argued, however, that the Jewish Agency must plan for the long term and not be daunted by transi- tional trends. He said he had taken into account po- tential as well as actual aliya projections. Duizin said the situation could change quickly both in the Soviet Union and in western countries, leading to large and sudden waves of aliya. Dulzin earmarked $42 million for social welfare services in Israel, a $20 mil- lion cutback from actual expenditures the previous year. He said this reflected the Israel government's shouldering of the burden of welfare subsidies. He listed $11.6 million for health services and $44.3 million for pre-university education, both items clashed compared with the previous year. He said $80.8 million would go to universities, the same total as last year and $38.1 million to youth care and training, a figure higher than that of last year to take account of Youth Ali- ya's expanding program to educate disadvantaged Is- raeli youth as well as young immigrants. thwis Weft Gaieties ANNOUNCES act auction The budget figure for settlement was $64.3 mil- lion, more than last year, with large sums ear- marked for the agency's settlement projects in the Arava and the Galilee. Saturday, June 21 Preview: 8:30 P.M. — Auction: 9:30 P.M. Zionist Organization of Detroit 18451 West 10 Mile Rd. Southfield, Michigan LITHOGRAPHS • ETCHINGS • SERIGRAPHS • DRAWINGS • PAINTINGS • WATERCOLORS • POSTERS, etc. Featuring hand signed graphIcs,.pulted from editions limited to from 10 to 300. The figure for housing, $91.6 million was less than the amount spent in that category last year, reflect- ing the drop in aliya. 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Sapir noted in his address that only 32,000 immigrants came to Israel in 1974 com- pared to 55,000 in 1973. He said that the 7,400 olim who arrived during the first five months of 1975 cotnprised "about half of what it was in the same period last year." Sapir attributed the sharp decline in immigra- tion in part to the harass- ment and persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union who seek exit visas. He said he wanted to assure them that the campaign for their freedom was continuing in Israel and in Jewish com- munities throughout the worl d. Sapir said that while the immigrant housing problem was practically solved, there were still many problems ahead, notably in the area of social absorption. He told the delegates that they must devote special atten- tion to organizing aliya as special projects of their home communities rather than as an initiative from outside. Meanwhile, representa- tives of 1,000 immigrant families from the U.S. demonstrated Wednesday outside the convention hall where the Jewish Agency assembly was in progress to protest rent increases which, they said, violated promises made to them before they came to Israel. All of the families immi- grated during the past five years. The immigrants said that before they came to Israel, Jewish Agency emissaries promised them that their rent would be established for a 12-year period with increases every third year at a fixed rate. However, the housing authorities are now demanding an upward revi- sion of the rent scale which the tenants say is a burden they cannot bear. A spokesman for the dem- onstration said they were told by government officials that the original promise had been based on a miscal- culation that has cost the government IL 42 million to date. The government is trying to divide the increase be- tween the housing ministry, the building contractors and the tenants. But the immi- grants say that the miscal- culation was not their re- sponsibility and that they are not about to pay for it. During the assembly, the general display of un- ity within Zionist ranks was marred by an attack on Sapir emanating from the Revisionist (Herut) wing of the World Zionist movement. Several hours before the assembly opened, the Revisionists held a press conference in Tel Aviv at which the fac- tion's chairman, Rafael Kolowitz, blamed Sapir personally for the decline in aliya and demanded his ouster. The attack brought swift and angry rebuttals from Max Fisher and Jew- ish Agency treasurer Leon Duizin. meanwhile, that he was hopeful and encouraged by reports from Washington of the strengthened American- Israeli understanding. 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