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Bill to Exempt Israel Women From Military Hit
Boris Smolar's
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Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
NEW UJA PROJECT: Something new — and very
important for Israel — is now being planned by the leader-
ship of the United Jewish Appeal. It will be an addition to
its regular 1979 fund-raising campaign. It has to do with
putting an end to Israel's slums and with normalizing the
life of the tens of thousands of immigrant families, many of
whom are still living in conditions reminiscent of the
Maabarot.
The Maabarot — the tents in which immigrants from
Morocco and other North African countries had lived in the
early years following the establishment of Israel in misera-
ble conditions, under the open sky— have long been liquid-
ated. But many of their former inhabitants still live in
squalor.
Today, 30 years after the establishment of Israel, 45,000
immigrant families — some 300,000 people — live in
slums. They constitute 10 percent of Israel's population.
There are 200,000 Israeli-born children among them.
There is a gap between this slum generation and the other
elements of Israel's population. In civilian life they con-
sider themselves as being treated like "second class" citi-
zens.
IMMORTALIZATION OF DONORS: The problem
cannot be solved overnight but the UJA leadership has now
decided to participate in a three-year project as the first
stage in an attempt to improve life in the slums. It will
proclaim a special $120 million campaign for these three
years to be conducted side-by-side with the regular UJA
drive which brings in about $400 million a year.
The plan is to raise $32 million in 1979, $40 million in
1980, and $48 million in 1981. The fund-raising campaign
for this special project will be conducted under the name
"Operation Renewal." It will be based on "plus giving."
Contributions will be accepted only above the regular cam-
paign gifts. Donors will have to pledge that they will main-
tain or exceed their regular contributions at 1978 levels.
The three-year campaign — in which Jews from other
countries will join to contribute $60 million through the
Keren Hayesod — is calculated to bring about normal life
only in 30 of the 160 slum areas. In these first 30 com-
munities selected for "renewal" live 9,000 families number-
ing 60,000 people. Based on the experiences of the first
stage of the project will be a re-evaluation of the program
and pace acceleration to the next 30 communities slated for
renewal, until the "unfinished job" of the absorption of all
the 45,000 slum families will be completed. The Jewish
Agency and the Israel government will be involved in this
project to a very great extent.
Two innovations will be introduced by UJA for the "Op-
eration Renewal" fund-raising system. One will enable
donors to link their names to any part of the project they
may choose, providing their gift is no less than $10,000,
payable within three years in three installments. The other
is the instituting of "Community to Community" contact in
which a community in the U.S. will have the opportunity to
"adopt" a slum community in Israel and take the responsi-
bility for the entire renewal project of the adopted commun-
ity.
OPTIMISTIC EXPECTATIONS: There is no doubt in
the minds of the UJA leaders that the raising of the $32
million in the first year of "Operation Renewal" will not
meet with any difficulties, and that this will be the case also
in the subsequent two years of the three-year project.
Among the more than a million contributors to the regu-
lar annual UJA campaign for general humanitarian pur-
poses, many will be attracted by the opportunity to lend
also a helping hand in erasing the slums in Israel by shar-
ing in the "Operation Renewal" and having their names
linked to it.
Already two-thirds of the population in the slums are
Israeli-born: As time marches on, the proportion of Israeli-
born among the underprivileged will definitely grow
higher. Israel cannot afford two kinds of native-born Is-
raelis. It would erode its cohesiveness. "Operation Re-
newal" is important for Israel next to winning peace.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Knesset's foreign af-
fairs and security commit-
tee reacted angrily to a
government-sponsored
measure that would exempt
any young woman from
military service simply on
her own word that she is re-
ligious. Loud objections
were expressed by members
of the government as well as
the opposition.
They were especially in-
censed to hear that provi-
sions of the proposed new
law have been, in fact, al-
ready implemented and
that no woman declaring
to go to countries other than
Israel).
Dulzin addressed a meet-
ing of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish Organizations
at which he said that more
than 50 percent of Jews who
emigrated from the Soviet
Union this year decided-not
to go to Israel.
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of the key concessions
made by Premier
Menahem Begin to the
ultra-Orthodox Aguda
Israel bloc as the price
for their support of the
Likud-led coalition. At
the time those conces-
sions were exacted, Be-
gin's government com-
manded a slender major-
ity of two votes in the
Knesset. It has since been
enlarged by the 15 votes
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The • committee is
scheduled to hear addi-
tional testimony from Wo-
men's organizations that
oppose the law and religious
bodies that support it.
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