e 1111EMOIT JEWISH 'NEWS Irk*, MayMI !198.3 3 Israel Forces_ Striking Doctors to Return to Work (Continued from Page 1) president of the Medical Association, agreed that the climate of the talks should be improved but insisted that the government offer new proposals to bring the doctors back to the negotiat- ing table. SSW Beginning with the evening shift Tuesday, hospitals were staffed by 30 percent of their medi- cal staff. They had been reduced to 10 percent over the weekend when the striking doctors res- igned en-masse and "Disappeared" on "vaca- tion" to avoid being served with back-to- work orders. .. The Attorney General ruled; however, that publi- cation of the orders in the office Gazette and their broadcast by the media was sufficient to make them valid under the law. The or- ders were read over radio and television Monday night, followed by the names of the thousands of doctors being called back to work. The maximum pen- alty for failure to comply is two years imprisonment and a 250,000 shekel (about $6,000) fine. Although less than one- third of the medical staffs were back on duty the situa- tion was close to normal. Histadrut doctors have ageed, meanwhile, to re- open the Kupat Holim (sick-fund) clinics two- days-a-week to deal with medical emergencies and chronically-ill patients. The clinics have been closed nearly two months but the doctors continued to treat patients for a fee at "alter- native medical service cen- ters." The Treasury's refusal to exceed the 22 percent national wage increase ceiling, agreed to by His- tadrut, created. the im- passe over salaries. Shos- tak, who concedes that doctors' salaries should be upgraded considering the abnormal hours they work, has suggested that the Treasury get around the ceiling by recognizing that the Medical Associa- tion is independent of Histadrut and had no part in negotiating the ceiling. The Finance 'Ministry published the pay scale of publicly-employed doctors in advertisements in the daily press. The figures were immediately disputed by the Medical Association which pointed out that the gross income of physicians represented compensation for more than 100 hours of work per week compared to the 40-45 hour week worked by most other employed perpons in Israel. Virtually all doctors in Is rael are employed by the government or the various sick-funds. Few, if any, have a private practice. Israeli Aircraft Evade Strike by Syrian Air-to-Air Missiles JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel Air Force jets on "routine patrol" over.Leba- non were fired on by Syrian air-to-air missiles Wednes- day. The Israeli aircraft were not hit and did not re- turn the fire. All returned safely to their bases, mili- tary sources said, according to Israel Radio. The sources were quoted as saying the patrols would continue. Defense Minister Moshe Arens told' the Knesset's foreign affairs and security committee that there were "worrisome signs" of Syrian military preparations in Lebanon and on the Golan 1 " Heights. He gave no details, but admitted that Israel does not have a firm assessment of Syria's inten- tions. Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin, a Laborite member a of the committee, said Syria would not launch a war on Israel, but he .did rule out local incidents. - In a related develop- ment, Premier Menahem Begin acknowledged that there are several difficul- ties in the way of imple- menting Israel's agree- ment with Lebanon, chiefly Syria's refusal to cooperate by agreeing to withdraw its forces from that country. But he told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Secu- rity Committee that Israel should not present any ul- timatums but should draw up a scenario in the event Syria remains intransigent. Begin's appearance be- fore the committee exposed sharp differences in the op- position leadership over what course should be fol- lowed. Labor Party chair- man Shirnon Peres urged Israel to set a target date for the pull-out of its forces from Lebanon, regardless of what the Syrians do. Otherwise, "We shall re- main stuck in the mud of rivalry between the com- cord which moved Israel munities in Lebanon with- and Lebanon towards (nit being able to reach peaceful relations. agreement," he warned. The policy maker con- Meanwhile, Israel is firmed that Israel and drawing up contingency Lebanon had not reached plans for a redeployment final agreement on the of its army in Lebanon, if status and role of Maj. Saad the withdrawal of all Haddad. This issue will be foreign 'forces from that taken up in the Joint country cannot be im- Liaison Committee to be es- plemented because of Sy- tablished after the agree- rian opposition, a senior ment comes into effect' with government policy the exchange of "instru- maker said. ments of ratification." The policy maker refused But it had been agreed, to set any deadline or time the policy maker said, that limit for the implementa- Haddad would be inte- tion of the withdrawal grated into the Lebanese agreement. But he stressed_ _ army, would hold a senior repeatedly that planning of rank, and would hold no less alternative deployment was an assignment than deputy actively under way. Israel, commander of the territo- he noted, was not commit- rial brigade, the task which . ted to maintain its present Lebanon and the U.S. had deployment in Lebanon. proposed for him and which The policy maker hinted Israel initially rejected. • that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and/or the multi- national force might be moved into any areas -vac- JERUSALEM (JNI) — ated by the Israel army in a Parliamentarians from the redeployment to the south Council of Europe recently or into areas vacated by Is- toured the °coal-fired power rael and the Syrians if plant at Hadera, visited the simultaneous withdrawal is Ormat solar pools at the eventually implemented. Dead Sea and attended the He noted that under the dedication of a pilot plant in Israel-Lebanon agreement, the Negev for the processing one UNIFIL batallion is to of oil shale. remain north of Sidon to The Shale plant, which patrol the Sidon-Tyre area crushes, prepares and burns refugee camps. This would oil shale extracted from leave five UNIFIL batall- nearby deposits, is the ions available for a latest in a series of innova- peacekeeping role tive Israeli energy projects. elsewhere in Lebanon if the The pilot plant is expected UN Security Council to grow into a complex pro- agreed. viding 30 percent of Israel's The policy maker liquid fuel needs by the stressed the broad Arab mid-1990s. world support of the Further development agreement, or at least of plans for shale oil call for the principle of simul- the construction of two taneous withdrawal. He demonstration plants over noted though that the so the next five years at a cost called Arab moderates, of $60 million. One plant such as Saudi Arabia, would extract synthetic fuel have privately spoken and the other would burn out against the "p•oliti- the shale oil-- to produce cal" provisions of the ac- steam - The .basic salary of a newly graduated doctor starting his internship last January was ) equivalent to $360 a month at the prevail- ing rate of exchange. The base salary of a senior hos- pital director last January was the equivalent of $637 a month. The base salary is the means for calculating pensions and other benefits. But it is usually tripled or quadrupled by over- time, extra shifts, weekend duty, travel and book allowances and var- ious other allowances, some 16 items in all. These raise the monthly: earnings of an intern -to $1,000 and of a senior hospital director to just under $3,000 before taxes. But taxes and various other deductions consume almost half of the gross salaries. The heavy work load and long hours at . hos.: pitals leave senior physi- cians and specialists little time to accept the few pri- vate patients willing to pay, for medical treatment or tion was presented by the unwilling to endure the Labor Alignment, Hadash long wait for non- (Communists) and Shinui. emergency operations or other treatment. Likud Wins Confidence Vote JERUSALEM (JTA) — A motion of non-confidence in the government's economic policy was defeated in the Knesset by a vote of 59-53 Tuesday evening. Former Finance Minister Yigael Hurwitz (Likud), a long-time critic of the policies of Yoram Aridor, the present Finance Minis- ter, abstained. The non-confidence mo- George Ohrenstein Jewelers Ltd. 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