THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 6, 1980 11
Russians Becoming Political Bloc in Israel
By YITZHAK SHARGIL
by the various political par-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — ties.
Their discontent was voi-
Jewish immigrants from
the Soviet Union, dissatis- ced at a conference of Soviet
fied with the lack of pro- Jews in Israel held recently
gress in improving absorp- at Ben-Gurion University of
tion procedures, solving the Negev in Beersheba
their problems of housing under the chairmanship of
and social and economic Yosef Tekoah, president of
integration and deeply con- the university and Israel's
cerned over the rising rate former ambassador to the
of "dropouts" are beginning United Nations. Aliya and
to emerge as a political force absorption were the main
Israel, ardently courted topics on the agenda.
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But significantly, the two creation of employment op-
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are pleased to announce
sibility lies in those areas — academic olim and profes-
Minister of Absorption sionals.
The Health Ministry was
the return of
David Levy and Leon Dul-
zin, chairman of the Jewish criticized for creating artifi-
Agency and World Zionist cial obstacles to the absorp-
Organization Executives — tion of ohm with medical
were not invited and did not training. The establish-
attend. Shimon Peres, ment of a health resort on
to the practice of podiatric medicine
leader of the opposition the Dead Sea was proposed
Labor Party was present, as a source of jobs for im-
and foot surgery at
however, and sat on the migrants in the medical
profession.
dais.
Other proposals included
Victor Polsky, a leader
of the emigres, observed the building of a Russian
that Soviet Jews in Israel immigrant town in the
28756 Telegraph Rd.
now form a power bloc, Galilee and improved recep-
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and, if united, could win tion facilities at Ben-Gurion
at least six seats in the Airport,.
With respect to the drop-
Knesset. Until now, they
have not used their polit- out issue, the „conference
ical clout. But they will if urged the government and
there is no action taken to the Jewish Agency to see to
improve the absorption it that all Jews leaving the
process or to reduce the USSR are flown directly to
high rate of dropouts, he Israel where they can later
decide whether to remain or
said.
The 700 immigrants go elsewhere.
The conference issued a
attending the Beersheba
gathering, which was special appeal to American
labeled an emergency con- Jews to launch a public
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ference, represented a campaign against the blan-
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tool. Representatives of
rival groups interfered with
speeches and a scuffle al-
most developed at one point,
causing the presiding offi-
cial to warn that hecklers
would be removed by force.
Speakers bitterly at-
tacked the policies of the
Absorption Ministry and
what they claimed was the
negative attitude of the Is-
raeli public at large toward
aliya in general and Rus-
sian olim in particular. At-
tacks were also aimed at the
official Russian-Jewish
immigrant establishment,
the Association of Russian
that great bronze tan in a tropical p aradise
Jews in Israel, for failing to
remedy deficiencies in aliya
oC
and absorption.
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were adopted noting that
immigration was
e ndangered by the many
c ee\Nr'c
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