THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
24 Friday, July 9, 1982
Connections' Blocked Couple's Emigration from Romania to Israel
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — Ilya Adrian
and his wife Simelia, two
engineers, recently arrived
in Israel from Romania with
their two children. For more
than two years they had
fought for their right to
emigrate to Israel. The rea-
son was Ilya's uncle, Petra
Lupo, is one of the leaders of
the Romanian Communist
Party and a member of its
Politboro. He is an ardent
an exit-permit it was auto-
matically rejected.
Adrian and his wife were
lectured several items by
high officials of the Roma-
nian emigration depart-
ment, who tried to persuade
them to withdraw their pet-
itions. When Ilya saw that
his request had no hope, he
appealed to Romanian Vice
President Rodelescu, who
received him but also ad-
vised him to withdraw his
petition.
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For two years Lupo suc-
ceeded in having the
bureaucracy block the
emigration of the Adrian
family. Whenever the fam-
ily forwarded a petition for
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realized that his uncle in-
terfered with their peti-
tion. When they turned to
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support for Israeli military
objectives in Lebanon.
The statement said that
blame for civilian casualties
in the Lebanon war "rests
squarely on the PLO."
The couple was re -\__,
ceived warmly in Israel
by relatives and friends.
Representatives of the
Jewish Agency waited
for them at the airport.
They got an apartment in
a building for newcomers
and are now learning
Hebrew in an ulpan of the
Jewish Agency. Their
children attend school
and have special Hebrew
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Triger noted that
Boohaker's comments came
a week after representa-
tives of the American-
Lebanese League, the
NCCJ, the Jewish Commu-
nity Relations Committee of
Birmingham, and other
Jewish and Christian lead-
ers, issued a statement of
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
representative of the
American Lebanese League
in Birmingham, Ala., said
that his organization sup-
ports and will "continue to
support Israeli action in
Lebanon until the PLO has
been swept from the area,"
it was reported by Israel's
Consul General for South-
eastern United States in At-
lanta, Ga., Yehoshua
Triger.
The league's representa-
tive, Joseph Boohaker, vice
president of the organiza-
tion for the southern region,
spoke at a joint press con-
ference with Triger last
week in Birmingham.
The conference was also
attended by Padgett Cope,
senior minister of the
Ruhama Baptist Church in
that city, and Dr. Jimmy
Harper, regional director of
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews
(NCCJ).
After 22 days they were
informed by the Emigration
Department that they were
granted passports and exit
permits.
Before leaving Romania,
Adrian sent a letter of
thanks to President
Ceaucesco. In Israel, the
couple changed their
Romanian names into He-
brew.
According to Triger,
Boohaker asserted that
"Until Syrian and PLO
troops are removed,
Lebanon cannot have a
free democracy and
pluralistic society."
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The young couple decided
not to give in and appealed
to President Ceaucescu and
members of the Politboro to
let them go to Israel. They
waited for weeks for an an-
swer. Afterwards they pro-
claimed a hunger-strike.
They also turned to foreign
press correspondents and
told them their story.
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no Jewish people and no
Jews. All Jews have as-
similated and Israel is
only a product of an 'his-
toric mistake' and would
anyway be liquidated in
the near future. Why
should you go there?"
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ADL Won't Meet
PLO Supporters
NEW YORK — The
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith has declined a
National Council of
Churches of Christ invita-
tion to meet on the situation
in Lebanon because partici-
pants will include a group
that actively supports the
aims and policies of the ter-
rorist Palestine Liberation
Organization.
James
Bishop
Armstrong, president of the
NCCC, invited ADL, other
Jewish agencies, and the
Palestine Congress of North
America — the group which
caused ADL to decline — to
meet with NCCC.
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