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BY WOLF BLITZER
The Jewish News Washington correspondent
Washington — Israeli
Foreign Ministry personnel
at the embassy in Washing-
ton joined their colleagues
in Jerusalem and other dip-
lomatic posts around the
world on Monday in a
planned three-day strike for
better working conditions.
Only Ambassador Meir
Rosenne, Embassy Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and a
few security officers showed
up at the Embassy on Mon-
day. Local secretarial and
other support personnel
stayed home. Rosenne and
Netanyahu had been served
Israeli court-ordered in-
junctions requiring their
presence.
strike. At that time, Arens
made no secret of his dis-
dain for the strike.
In contrast, Rosenne,
then Ambassador in Paris,
honored the strike. At that
time, there was no injunc-
tion forcing him to work. He
was later praised by Le
Monde for refusing to break
the strike.
At the embassy this week,
security officers were not
permitting officials at-
tached to the military, ag-
ricultural, economic, labor
and other sections of the
embassy to enter the build-
ing.
All consular activities
were also closed. As a result,
scores of Israeli citizens
showed up at the embassy to
receive visas and other
documents or information
were turned away at the
front gate. Many of them
complained bitterly of the
inconvenience of having to
return in a few days. Some
said they would miss flights
to Israel, thereby forfeiting
payments for tickets.
Several Americans also
came to the embassy for
previously-scheduled meet-
ings with Israeli diplomats,
only to be informed of the
strike.
The same scene of disap-
pointed Americans and Is-
raelis occurred at the Israeli
consulate's around the
United States and Canada.
Rosenne personally was
prepared' to provide only ur-
gent "life-and-death" consu-
lar services for those Israeli
citizens forced into return-
ing to Israel. There was one
case Monday morning in-
volving a death in Israel.
Rosenne, while clearly
sympathetic to the strike,
stamped the passport of a
family member forced to re-
turn for the funeral.
The 10 Israeli consulates
around the United States,
including the largest ones
in New York and Los
Angeles, were also closed.
Only security officers were
present.
The Foreign Ministry
employees are demanding
that they receive the special
status accorded to their
counterparts in the Mossad,
the Shin Bet and otter
branches of the Israeli in-
telligence communiy. This
would result in increased
pensions and other wage
and working benefits not
normally 'accorded civil
service employees.
Netanyahu, the 34-year-
old number-two man at the
Embassy, caused a stir
when he told Israel Televi-
sion on Sunday evening
that he intended to work de-
spite the strike.
A political appointee,
Netanyahu said he did not
want to judge the-actual
demands of the Foreign
Ministry employees, noting
only that it was out of the
question to shut down the
most important of Israel's
overseas posts.
He spoke out because
Rosenne was then in
Rochester, N.Y. on a
previously-planped Israel
Bonds engagement.
Rosenne, a career diplomat
for over 30 years, returned
to Washington Monday,
morning and immediately
drove his own car to the
Embassy since his driver
was on strike. He cancelled
a scheduled speaking trip to
Houston in order to remain
at the embassy.
Netanyahu'a television
statement, which resulted
in an outcry among the
Foreign Ministry workers '
in Jerusalem, became moot
Monday when he — like.
Rosenne — was notified by
telephone of the injunction.
Two years ago, the then
Ambassador in Washing-
ton, Moshe Arens, also
showed up at the embassy
during a. one-day, world-
wide Foreign Ministry
'
Callers phoning the em-
bassy were informed by a
recording that the embassy
would be closed until
Thursday. There was no ex-
planation given. A special
number was -given for
emergencies.
Rosenne and Netanyahu,
without secretarial assis-
tance, were answering their
own private, direct-line em-
bassy phones.
There was no picketing
outside the embassy, lo-
cated at the corner of Van
Ness and International
Drive in the northwest sec-
tion of the city.
Most of the diplomatic,
military and other staffers
took advantage of the strike
by simply staying at their
air-conditioned homes or
heading toward swimming
pools to escape Washing- •
ton's heat wave.
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