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PLO Making Political Gains
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — In
the last year, the PLO has
made significant political
gains, said General Ahron
Yariv, director of Israel's
Institute for Strategic
Studies.
"They get headlines; they
get'TV coverage that makes
them well known; they gain
access to the UN," he stated.
- "I think we in Israel have
kept the problem at toler-
able proportions at a toler-
able price; they have not
disrupted normal life, like
the IRA in Belfast. They
have not stopped immigra-
tion and tourism. We have
lost in the last 14 years
about 630 people to ter-
rorism; this is what we lose
each year to traffic "acci-
dents.
"It's cynical to speak of
human life like that, but
as a yardstick, the deaths
Hebrew U. Aids
New Immigrants
are not the real danger.
The danger is political, in
terms of getting the atten-
tion of the world, as well
as having an impact on
public opinion," said
Yariv.
• Yariv said it would be un-
thinkable for Israel to with-
draw from outposts along
the Jordan River. He be-
lieves that Israel should ac-
cept Arab sovereignty over
most of the West Bank ex-
cept for Jerusalem, but that
Israel should keep a
division-size force (about
10,000 troops) in the West
Bank.
He noted that the revolu-
tion in Iran was merely one
more event that had
deepened Israel's _sense of
insecurity. In the last five
years, he said, Syria, Iraq,
and Libya have had "startl-
ing military growth."
JERUSALEM — The He-
brew University of
Jerusalem ranks first in ab-
sorbing new immigrant sci-
entists in Israel.
About 75 percent of the
320 immigrant scientists
who were aided by the Is-
raeli Center for the Absorp-
tion of Scientists have been
employed by Israel's in-
stitutions of higher learn-
ing and research: More than
30 percent are working at
the Hebrew University.
What happened then in
Bunckley, Texas, in the
year 1994 will astonish
Jew and Christian alike,
and anger many — but it
may also change their
thinking in a very basic
way.
The author, who has been
active in the Jewish-
Christian brotherhood
move?nent for many years
maintains that in spite of
Vaticann, Christian teach-
ing and particularly that of
the Catholic Church is fos-
tering anti-Semitism to the
point where the world will
shortly experience another
Holocaust like the one Hit-
ler unleashed on Germany.
Dinitz to Teach
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Simha Dinitz, who recently
completed his term as Is-
rael's Ambassador to Wash-
ington, has been elected a
vice president of the He-
brew University for special
assignments. At the same
time he was also elected a
senior fellow of the univer-
sity's Leonard Davis Insti-
tute for International Rela-
tions.
Israeli Envoy First to Speak
to Jewish Refugees in Rome
ROME (JTA) — The
7,200-member transient
community of Soviet Jewish
refugees in Rome had an
emotional encounter with
Israel's Ambassador to
Italy, Moshe Allon.
It was an historic first,
since no Israel i Ambassador
had ever attempted to es-
tablish firsthand contact
with the Soviet refugees
who turn down immigration
to Israel in favor of the U.S.,
Canada, Australia or New
Zealand. They wait in Rome
for three months (for the
U.S.) to a year (for Au-
stralia) until their immi-
gration visas are ready.
Allon addressed a room
packed to capacity with
about 500 Soviet Jews in the
audience. He spoke in He-
brew with a Russian trans-
lator.
The ambassador spoke
of Israel, past, present
and future. He also spoke
of how Israel saw its rela-
tionship to these immig-
rants.
"Israel brought you here.
Others will receive you. But
no matter where you go,
don't forget one thing: that
you are Jews. Israel will
continue to fight for your
rights in the USSR. In the
past five or six years we
have received 150,000 of
you. Whenever you wish, in
the future, you are free to
come to Israel, kut also free
to go again."
Many of the families pre-
sent decided on their desti-
nations on the basis of join-
ing relatives in English-
speaking countries. Several
said they had found the de-
cision difficult, had consid-
ered Israel, but would have
wanted to visit first.
Fortunately,
some things never change.
Drug Trafficking
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The annual consumption of
narcotic drugs in Israel is IL
2 billion ($100 million),
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg told the Likud Knes-
set faction last week, The
use of heroin alone is IL 2.5
million Burg said in a ses-
sion which was devoted to
the situation in the national
police force.
Knesseter Ehud Olmert,
a veteran crusader against
organized crime in Israel,
said the police force was not
adequately fighting against
organized crime.
Novelist Blames Christian
Teachings for Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK — How
could a young priest, the
modern embodiment of
brotherly love, fitid himself
on trial for a death that
grieved him immeasurably
— a murder he would never
under any circumstances
have committed? Ben
Friedman's novel, "The An-
guish of Father Rafti (Two
Continents), gives the
shocking answer.
Fr. Rafti and Simha
Cohen were oddly-matched
friends. But the European
Jew, refugee from Hitler's
camps, isolated in a small
southwestern town, could
not have chosen a better
friend among the non-Jews
than the young priest.
Open-minded, free of any
taint of prejudice, anxious
to live according to the
teachings of Jesus and to
influence his small Chicano
flock the same way, James
Rafti struck a responsive
chord in the elderly Jewish
shoemaker the first time
they met.
The two men became gkod
friends; Fr. Rafti was like a
loving big brother to Sim-
ha's lonely little son.
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Gift for Library
HONOLULU (JTA) —
The Jewish Welfare Fund of
Hawaii has made a gift of
$250 to the 60-member
Jewish community of New
Delhi, India.
The gift will be used for
the New Delhi community's
new library.
.
The ancient traditions remain. generation after
generation. And today. we observe Passover as our
forefathers did thousands of years ago.
For almost a century. the old-fashioned good-
ness of Manischewitz has ushered in festive holt :
day dinners in lewish homes all over America..
This year. once again, Manischewitz matzo. gefilte
fish. soup and other -delectables will grace any
t raditional table.
Treat your family and friends‘lo a taste of tra-
dition, too.
• And have a good Passover!
For traditional goodness yOu can count on.
Pins Lectureship
JERUSALEM — A
$75,000 fund has been es-
tablished in the name of the
late deputy director of
JDC-Israel, Dr. Arnulf M.
Pins, for an annual visiting
lectureship in social work
practice and .community
center at the Hebrew Uni-
versity's Paul Baerwald
School of Social Work.
Manischewitz
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The 12th Annual Moishe Haar Memorial
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In Performance
"Turning the Pages of Jewish Humor and Drama"
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1979 8:30 P.M.
at the
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