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Dedication of New Synagogue
A Bittersweet. Event in Maalot
By SIMON GRIVER
United Jewish Appeal
Jewish people have become
used to commemorating
their dead. Representing
the government was Dov
Shilansky, another member
of the Knesset.
As the group drove
towards the new synagogue,
constructed in memory of
those who died, the sadness
of the scene was heightened
by the setting sun as it
bathed the rolling. Galilee
hills in its warm light. _
Among those attending
the synagogue ceremony
were many survivors. They
included two brothers, Zvi
and Arye Shmila, now aged
24 and 23. Shortly after the
terrorists had taken the
children hostage, Zvi es-
caped the schoolhouse by
jumping out of a window,
only to be immediately
caught and brought back.
Today Zvi is a paratrooper
but despite his traumatic
experience eight years ago
he is optimistic. "I believe
we can achieve peace with
the Arabs," he said, "I hope
the treaty with Egypt holds.
It might not work but we
had to try."
SAFED — In this ancient
city rich in Jewish tradi-
tion, the parents of the
school children massacred
during a 1974 Outing in the
nearby.town of Maalot dedi-
cated a new synagogue on
May 15, the eighth anniver-
sary of the tragic event.
The years do not soften
blow," explained
- _. arice Ne'eman in a re-
strained whisper, as his
wife Tzvia wept over the
grave of their 17 year-old
daughter Ilana. "The face of
our girl, smiling and so
charming, keeps coming
back to us and the memory
is as painful each time."
Three PLO terrorists in-
filtrated from southern
Lebanon on that day in
1974, and seized a
schoolhouse in the Galilean
town of Maalot, just across
the border, where 85
youngsters from Safed and
other northern com-
munities were on a weekend
excursion. By the time Is-
raeli troops stormed the
building, 24 children had
been killed.
For Miriam Mor Yosef,
On the anniversary of
the outrage, the this year's ceremony was
townspeople gathered at especially meaningful. At
a cemetery on a hillside 15 she is the same age as
outside Safed, where 19 her sister Tzivia was
of the 24 victims are when she died at Maalot.
buried. A smaller cere- She also attends the same
mony was conducted school as her late _sister.
several miles away in
Shaul Efrati came to
Hazor, where the other Safed a year after the
youngsters had lived.
tragedy to take up the post
The parents and of principal at the school. He
townspeople were ad- has worked hard to pick up
dressed by the mayor, MK the pieces and rebuild an
Aron Nachmias. He spoke atmosphere where pupils
sadly of how through cen- can be happy. "It is only in
turies of persection, the the last year or two that the
Sabbath Clause Out
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright, 1982, JTA, Inc.)
An employment applica-
tion form used by one of the
largest health and hospital
insurers in New York has
been revised by the firm, in
partial settlement of a law-
suit, to protect a Sabbath
observing job applicant
from being forced to disclose
his or her religious corn-
naitment prior to any pros-
pect of a job offer from that
firm.
Howard
Zuckerman,
president of the National
Jewish Commission on Law
and Public Affairs
(COLPA), which handled
the case, said the job appli-
cation of Jay Frishman of
Brooklyn, the Sabbath ob-
..-rver in the case, presented
,classic problem faced by
`a bbath observers. Dennis
Rapps, COLPA executive
director, represented
Frishman.
Zuckerman said that, by
being required to sign the
application, which has a
general declaration of the
applicant's availability for
work according to the re-
quirements of the employer,
the Sabbath observer was
forced either to lie or to dis-
close Sabbath observer
status.
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4
Zuckerman said that
this disclosure by the
applicant could lead the
prospective employer to
assert many reasons for
not hiring the applicant
when the real, undis-
closed reason was the
applicant's Sabbath
commitment.
Thus, while the law per-
mits non-hiring or dismis-
sal of an otherwise qualified
Sabbath observer only
when the employer can
prove undue hardship
would' result. fi.O:m hiring or
keeping the Sabbath ob-
server, violations of the law
were almost impossible to
prove, Zuckerman said.
COLPA's position, Zuc-
kerman said, is that a job
applicant should not be
placed in a position of
jeopardizing his or her abil-
ity to obtain a job by disclo-
sure of work restrictions
religiously based; or con-
sciously withholding infor-
mation about those restriev
tions, particularly if ac-
commodation to such re-
strictions would be possible
through a reasonable effort
by the employer, an accom-
modation which would then
be required by law.
The Children of Israel left
Egypt 3,500 years ago.
Friday, August 6, 1982 11
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community has begun to re-
cover from the shock," he
observed. "At first the
school was so closely associ-
ated with the event that
many parents transferred
their children elsewhere
and could not bring them-
selves even to visit the
school."
But today, the school has
more than 250 pupils, dou-
ble the number of children
who attended back in 1974
— a statement of how de-
termined the people of this
Galilee town remain.
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