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Jerusalem Doesn't Hinder
Poor Squatters in Katamon

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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
About 40 slum families
for your party
have pitched tents and are
building concrete and brick
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homes on state-owned land
south of Jerusalem in viola-
tion of the law. But the
Jerusalem municipality
made it clear that it is in no
call
hurry to evict the squatters.
The families, who call
themselves "Ohelim" — lit-
erally tent-dwellers_ — say
they are modeling their ac-
tion on the Gush Emunim.
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UJA Selects
Vice Chairman

NEW YORK — James L.
Weinberg, of Harrison,
N.Y., has been appointed a
national vice chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal.
Weinberg is currently
chairman of the UJA na-
tional allocations commit-
tee, a treasurer of UJA, Inc.,
and a member of the United
Jewish Appeal Board of
Trustees.

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Lansky to Return
to -Israel for
Rosh Hashana

But their motivation is
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
neither religious nor Meyer Lansky, the reputed
ideological; it is their way of one-time leader of or-
alleviating the acute hous-
ganized crime in the U.S.,
ing shortage that has will be permitted to return
plagued Jerusalem for to Israel from where he was
years without any effective evicted in 1972 after being
relief from the government.
denied citizenship because
The municipal source
of his criminal past.
agreed that "The housing
Interior Minister Yosef
shortage and soaring hous-
'Burg, who ordered his ous-
ing prices are a national ter eight years ago, lifted
problem" and the
the ban after Lansky, who
Jerusalem authorities will lives in Miami Beach, ex-
not help the government by
pressed a desire to visit Is-
quashing this latest demon-
rael for Rosh Hashana.
stration against it.
Burg said Lansky could
The municipality indi- stay
in the country for up to
cated, however, that it one month, according to a
would adhere to the nor- report in Yediot Ahronot.
mal legal process once He said he decided to lift the
the Israel Lands ban after obtaining evi-
Authority, which owns dence that the alleged rac-
the plot of wasteland in keteer was in poor health.
the Katamon slum quar-
Lansky fled to Israel in
ter, initiates formal pro- 1971 to avoid trial in the
ceedings against the U.S. on tax evasion charges.
squatters.
He was subsequently tried
The illegal building effort in federal court and acquit-
is being financed by inde- ted. He applied for citizen-
pendent MK - Samuel ship under the Law of Re-
Flatto-Sharon,, a mil- turn but the Supreme Court
lionaire who had been ac- turned him down on
cused of election ir- grounds that the law did not
regularities after he won a apply to known criminals.
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Court Allows
Students' Right
to Petition

NEW YORK (JTA) —
The American Jewish Con-
gress hailed as "a major vic-
tory for civil liberties" a
unanimous decision by the
U.S. Supreme Court last
week upholding the right of
Hebrew school students to
collect signatures at a
California shopping center
protesting the United Na-
tions anti-Zionist resolu-
tion.
The AJCongress had filed
a friend-of-the-court brief in
support of the public's right
to circulate petitions or
otherwise peacefully exer-
cise their rights of free
speech in privately owned
shopping centers.
The case — Pruneyard
Shopping Center vs. Rob-
bins — arose in San Jose,
Calif., when Jewish stu-
dents at Temple . Emanu-El,
as part of a class project,
sought to collect signatures
for a petition opposing the
UN resolution.

Housing Budget
May Cost Jobs

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
An agreement has been
reached between the Treas-
ury and the Housing Minis-
try calling for a 12 percent
cut in the ministry's budget.
An official announcement
said that the cuts would not
affect new housing con-
struction. However,
analysts predicted that the
reduction of the housing
budget by more than IL 3
billion would result in the
dismissals of over 11,000
construction workers and
would set off a chain reac-
tion in other trades.
The cost of housing can be
expected to rise because
there will be fewer con-
struction starts, the
analysts said.

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`Between You
. . . and Me'

Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

THE JEWISH. AGENCY ASSEMBLY: The assem-
bly of the Jewish Agency, which opens its session June 29 in
Jerusalem, is the parliament of world Jewry with regard to
matters concerning humanitarian aid to Israel. It is corn-
posed of Zionists and non-Zionists on a partnership basis.
The Zionist members of the assembly are being elected by
the World Zionist Congress; the non-Zionists are be'
designated by the organized communities in the countr-
where funds are raised for Israel. In the United States they
are nominated by the Jewish federations and the United
Jewish Appeal.
More than 100 delegates from the United States will
attend the assembly. The American Jewish community
participates through the United Israel Appeal in directing
the policy and activities of the Jewish Agency in Israel. The
UIA designates 30.percent of the membership of the board
of governors of the Jewish Agency. These come from a
number of U.S. Jewish communities which participate in
fund-raising for the United Jewish Appeal.
The board of governors decides on the allocations of
funds for programs budgeted by the Jewish Agency. The
American members enjoy a veto right. The chairman of the
board of governors is Detroiter Max M. Fisher, the noted
American Jewish leader who is not a Zionist, but is deeply
devoted to the cause of Israel. The chairman of the Jewish
Agency is Leon Dulzin, who is also the chairman of the
World Zionist Organization.
PROBLEMS; PROBLEMS; PROBLEMS: The
more than 500 delegates and guests participating in the
assembly will be presented with quite a gloomy picture on
the present state of affairs of the Jewish Agency. They will
be told that income to meet the 1979-1980 budget fell short
of the $430 million projected; that the budget was cut to
$395 million; that a projected- three-year regular budget
designed to stabilize the quality of life in Israel has been
suspended; that severe economizing has resulted in a 15
percent cut in staff and the trimming of services; and that -
the 1980-1981 projection of $523 million was cut for final
approval to $385 million.
The immediate results are:
• Immigrants expected this year — and from previous
years — will be forced to stay in absorption centers for
periods of up to two years.
• Only one new Galilee settlement — instead of 30 —
will be established this year at a time when Israeli Arabs
are already out-numbering the Jews in this heartland of
Israel and despite a riot in which the Arabs attacked the
Jews at a soccer game screaming "Khomeini lives, Zionists
die."
• Only one-third, or fewer, .of the Negev settlements
will be established along the new Egyptian border where it
was planned to settle many of the 10,000 settlers scheduled
to be withdrawn from Sinai.
• There will be no economic consolidation of any of the
older agricultural settlements.
• Two thousand disadvantaged teenagers scheduled
for entry into Youth Aliya this year will not be -enrolled —
all of them from Israel's distressed neighborhoods.
• Planned expansion of aid to the aged and other social
welfare services will not take place.
The agency's anticipated income for 1980-1981 from
the UJA, Keren Hayesod campaigns and all other sources
is $301 million.
SOVIET JEWS IN ISRAEL: Orie of the major issues
at the assembly will be the issue of the Soviet Jews who
"drop out" en route to Israel as soon as they leave the Soviet
soil and remain in Italy to await visas to the United States,
Canada and other countries.
In this connection the delegates to the assembly will be
presented with the result of a study of how the Soviet Jews
live in Israel five years after their arrival in the country.
The following picture emerges from the study, which wP
conducted by the Statistics Bureau of the Israel goven
ment and the Jewish Agency:
Sixty percent consider themselves to be thoroughly
Israeli after five years residence. Eighty percent reaffirm
their decision to come to Israel. About two percent . gre
unsure if they will remain in Israel. Nine percent leave
Israel within five years of their arrival (compared with 38
percent among immigrants from other countries). This
group is composed mostly of young singles who arrived in
Israel as individuals, with the number of females leaving
exceeding the number of males.
Ninety-six percent live in permanent accommodations
and 40 percent own their own homes. Sixty-three percent
are in the work force now as well as in the first year after
their arrival. Most have worked on their present jobs for at
least three years. Fifty percent of those employed are satis-
fied with their salary. Thirty percent either own a private
vehicle or have the use of one.