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Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit admits Jewish children of any race, color, national or ethnic origin. Its admission and scholarship programs are non discriminatory. Israelis are 'pampered,' told to cut spending Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israelis, who often describe themselves as the most heavily taxed people in the world are also the most "pam- pered,"• according to Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai. They must be prepared to accept a dras- tic reduction in their standard of living, he told a meeting of the Engineers Club here. Modai said the government aims to reduce living standards to the level of 1980 which would be "decent" but not "comfortable" in order to implement the massive budget cuts necessary for eco- nomic recovery. He admitted that the cuts he seeks have not yet been effected.The Israel govern- ment carries a burden comparable to a country with six times the population, he said. No other country in the world has one quar- ter of its population in productive enterprises and more than one- third in service jobs, Modai de- clared. In no other country does the public pay less than 20 per- cent of its total expenditures for health and education. Modai noted that Israelis visit doctors five times more frequently than Western Europeans and use four times as much medication per capita. Meanwhile, employees of the government-owned Israel Ship- yards held a mass meeting Sun- day to protest plans to reduce the 800-member workforce by half because of lack of orders. In a related development, Pre- mier Shimon Peres began consul- tations last week on a new eco- nomic package deal to take effect when the three-month wage-price freeze instituted last November expires three weeks from now. The Treasury and Histadrut of- ficials are working on various plans and the Bank of Israel is preparing for a law that will for- bid the government to print new currency to cover its deficit — forcing it indirectly to reduce spending. Israelis, meanwhile, had the in- creasingly rare experience of hearing some good economic news this week. The Central Bureau of Statistics reported a 29 percent improvement in the country's balance of trade last year, revers- ing a two year trend. The trade deficit in 1984 amounted to $2.5 billion compared to $3.5 billion in 1983. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry reported Tuesday that Israel's industrial exports rose by 16.6 percent last year after two years of stagnation. And the Cen- tral Bureau of Statistics annouced at the same time that there was no rise in the price index during the last two weeks of December. Modai has expressed concern that the freeze policy would mean continuation of massive govern- ment subsidies to preserve the price levels of controlled items. The government printed about 160 million shekels last month to cover the cost of its subsidies. Modai likens this to a fire under a pressure cooker which eventu- ally will blow the lid off. He feels also that reduced inflation during the freeze period will be wasted without an agreement for further cuts in the state budget. Histadrut Secretary General Yisrael Kessar came up with a proposal to compensate workers for rising prices of subsidized items without passing the in- creases on to the consumer price index and the cost-of-living index. The effect of his proposal, if ac- cepted by the government and the manufacturers, would be to break the sequence of automatic price and wage linkage, the main ele- ment of the inflationary spiral. Meanwhile, Israel's Minister of Economic Planning, Gad Yaacobi, expressed optimism that Israel will eventually resolve its eco- nomic crisis, but he warned that the road to recovery is long and painful. Detente may benefit Jews in Soviet Union Paris (JTA) — The Jewish communities of Western • Europe believe that detente and improved relations between East and West could benefit Soviet Jews. A joint appeal to that effect was presented to a senior American diplomat attending the U.S.- Soviet arms talks in Geneva last week by Claude Kelman of France, co-president of the Euro- pean Conference for Soviet Jews, it was disclosed here. The appeal was signed by representatives of Jewish com- munities in Switzerland, Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Nor- way, Holland, Luxembourg, Bel- gium, Spain and Greece. It stated that these 11 Jewish communities believe that "a re- newed detente and a better inter- national understanding would help imprOve the condition of Soviet Jewry," The U.S. was urged at the same time to con- tinue its efforts to help the perse- cuted Jews in the USSR. Meanwhile, Secretary of State George Shultz raised the issue of Soviet Jewry several times with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko during their arms con- trol talks in Geneva, according to Mark Palmer, a senior State De- partment official Shultz sent here as a special envoy to brief Israeli officials on the Geneva talks. Palmer was in Egypt last week to brief officials in Cairo on the Geneva talks. In New York, Avital Shcharansky has informed Soviet Jewish activists in the United States that her mother-in-law, Ida Milgrom, has been granted permission to visit her son, Soviet Jewish prisoner of conscience Anatoly Shcharansky in the Perm Labor Camp. The visit was scheduled last Monday. Shcharansky is serving a 13- year sentence after being con- victed in 1978 on charges of spy- ing for the United States. Last November, Soviet authorities told Mrs. Milgrom that he had been transferred from a prison near Moscow to a labor camp in the Ur- als. Mrs. Shcharansky said last month that family sources had been informed Shcharansky had been hospitalized, although Soviet authorities did not provide details of his illness. .