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Economic conference in NY
Israeli crisis may force
change from philanthropy
to investment for U.S.
Jewry.
New York (JTA) — Israel's
deepening economic crisis and how
best to help solve it will be the major
topic at a special conference to be held
in New York next week with promi-
nent Israeli and American Jewish
leaders.
The conference, sponsored by the
Israel Diaspora Institute, a private
think-tank based at Tel Aviv Univer-
sity, will focus on the impact of the
economic crisis-Ts on relations between
American Jewry and Israel and dis-
CLOSE-UP
Kenneth Bialkin, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major
America n Jewish Organizations; Ale-
xander Grass, national chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal; and How-
ard Squadron, former president of the
American Jewish Congress and leader
of the newly-formed business Group
for Middle East Peace and Develop-
ment, which seeks to promote eco-
nomic development in the West Bank .
The Israeli Cabinet agreed
unanimously Sunday, after a stormy
session, to go ahead with preparations
for a second economic package deal.
The first, which includes a wage-price
freeze, is due to expire this month. Fi-
nance Minister Yitzhak Modai came
under fire from most of his fellow
cuss whether these relations are in the
process of changing from philanthropy
to greater business investment in Is-
rael on the part of American Jews.
The conference next Thursday
will be attended by Gad Yaacobi, Is-
rael's Minister of Economic Planning;
General (Res.) Meir Amite, former chief
of Israeli military intelligence and
former president of Koor Industries,
the giant Israeli conglomerate; Prof.
Haim Ben-Sharar, former president of
Tel Aviv University a:id one of Israel's
leading economists; Binyamin
Netanyahu, Israel's Ambassador to
the United Nations; Max Fisher, De-
troit industrialist who heads the task
force requested by Premier Shimon
Peres to spearhead American Jewry's
efforts to improve Israel's economy;
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Re ligio u s News Service
German media
glosses Green
visit to Israel
Green Party members held a press conference Dec. 25 at the Allenby Bridge after officials
refused to allow party leader Brigette Heinrich entry into Israel because of her views
favoring the Palestine Liberation Organization.
JANUARY 4, 1985
Bonn (JTA) — Green Party offi-
cials in West Germany view the visit of
their delegation to Israel last week as
an enormous success in gaining pub-
licity for the party's ideas. Never be-
fore in its short history has the Green
Party had such favorable attention fo-
cused by the media on its view that a
Palestinian state should be created on
the West Bank, and what it terms "Is-
rael crimes" in Lebanon should be de-
nounced by the West German govern-
ment.
The German media coverage of
the delegation concentrated heavily
on the differences of opinion between
Israel and the Greens on the Palesti-
nian issue. It either left unmentioned
or strongly downplayed other dif-
ferences and the party's anti-Semitic
tendencies.
The German media largely ig-
nored the fact that the delegation had
prepared its itinerary in Lebanon, in
Syria and Jordan with the Palestine
Liberation Organization and with the
governments of these countries. This
happened, according to well-informed
sources in the party, well before the
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