Friday, December 16, 1983 31 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Falasha Backs Israeli Efforts in Ethiopia NEW YORK (JTA) — An Ethiopian Jew who emi- .• Grandfather Antique Cuckoo 400 Day Clocks OPEN DAILY 10-5 SUN. 12-5 CLOSED WED. & SAT. CLOCK REPAIR EO 9S 559-5908 . 29758 Southfield Rd. Booth #8 Southfield Plaza Shopping Center Inside of International Jewelry Exchange (1/2 mile N. of 12 Mi.) • Southfield grated to Israel more than 25 years ago and is now in- timately involved with helping new olim from Ethiopia adjust to their new environment in Israel warned against "outside in- tervention" in the efforts to rescue the Falashas. He did not elaborate on what he meant by "outside interven- tion." Matityahu Elias, em- ployed by the Jewish Agen- cy's immigration and ab- sorption department, said Israel's effort to rescue Ethiopian Jews has been successful and despite "in- tense difficulties," Falashas were leaving their country and reaching Israel. 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While in the Israel Defense Force, he met his wife, a sabra, and they now live at Kibutz Netzer Sereni with their three children. Speaking to reporters at a news conference at the na- tional headquarters of the ZOA, Elias praised the work of "responsible and profes- sional" groups ill the rescue of Ethiopian Jews. "We will never be satisfied until all of Ethiopia's 20,000 Jews have reached Israel," he said, al- though he warned that "any other intervention endangers the Falashas." Since the fall of the gov- ernment of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and the subsequent Marxist takeover, Elias said that government's land reform program has enabled a handful of Jews to own some farms, although a great majority remain tenant farmers, living in poverty. He said, however, that the land reform program has not helped many Jews whose land ownership is op- posed strongly by Coptic Christians. The absorption process in Israel is not easy for Falashas when they arrive, Elias said. He said the few thousand that are now in Is- rael in 15 absorption cen- ters' "have a great hunger for learning. They come with little or nothing but a burning desire to learn. "They have never seen a telephone, never ridden in an elevator, never used a sink or flushed a toilet, never turned on an elec - tric light. Truly, they have lived under primi- tive conditions," Elias said. Elias serves as a trans- lator, ombudsman and guide. He said the current government in Ethiopia is "not anti-Falasha but anti- religious." Dour Prediction JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Israeli Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad predicts that many Israeli workers will be forced from their jobs in the service sector of Is- rael's economy and into in- dustry and export. He expects real income for Israelis to drop 10 per- cent in 1984 and inflation to reach 200 percent. Goods and services cost- ing IS 3,680 in 1980 now cost IS 56,000 ($560). West Bloomfield Plaza 6666 Orchard Lake Rd. 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