411111111111111111111111111111111PIL Jerusalem Doesn't Hinder Poor Squatters in Katamon Caricatures JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 40 slum families for your party have pitched tents and are building concrete and brick By 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. 000000000000000000000000000 SAM FIELD 399-1320 BRODY'S Boys' & Young Men's Wear 6736 Orchard Lake - Rd. WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA Just South of Maple Rd. , 851-6232 8 8 HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL YOUR CAMP NEEDS CHECK LIST FREE. ALTERATIONS SLEEPING BAGS- DUFFEL BAGS DITTY BAGS SEA BAGS MUSSETTE BAGS RUCK SACKS BACK PACKS .ARMY BLANKETS CANTEENS FLASHLIGHTS CAMP KNIVES DRINKING CUPS TOOTH BRUSH HLDRS. 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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. • Knesset. seat in 1977. ******•************** WE ALSO CARRY CAMP TAMARACK *T-SHIRTS AND SWEATSHIRTS * • ...‘ — , THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 16 Friday, June 20, 1980 - - J11111111i \\A! Rat k 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. Boris Smolar's • `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.