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Special to The Jewish News
Haifa — The subject of aliyah to
Israel has gone through several
phases in America. In the earliest
stage, encouragement of immi-
gration to the Jewish homeland
was regarded as something al-
most un-American, and those who
went on aliyah were looked upon
as queer creatures who somehow
did not fit in the American milieu.
In the second stage it was
grudgingly admitted that there
were positive sides to aliyah, and
that it was indeed an important
aspect of Zionism„ but was not the
sort of thing to be discussed
openly lest people misunderstand.
If there were those who wanted to
go, well and good, but heaven for-
bid that any "campaign" should
be conducted in this direction.
The third period is marked by a
new respectability accorded to
aliyah. It is now perfectly proper
to talk about it, even in public.
Help may be given to all who wish
to go to Israel, but to conduct a
persistent drive to "sell" the idea
— that stage has not yet been
reached.
Ehud Olmert, one of the more
practical and forward-looking of
the Likud politicians in Israel,
now insists that the only way to
get results is to put aliyah at the
very top of the Zionist agenda and
to keep it there, affording it no
less stimulation and support than
is today given to fund-raising.
One man who has been close to
the aliyah situation, Zvi Bisk,
suggests that a great mistake has
been made in dealng with the
emigrants as if they were welfare
cases, making them dependent on
the Jewish Agency and the Immi-
gration Ministry of the govern-
ment, and all the bureaucracy and
officialdom which grew out of
such instiutionalization. The ear-
lier olim, at the turn of the cen-
tury, had their problems and they
did not always succeed, but what
they did was done as a result of
their own creative efforts. They
had no bureaucrats to lay down
the regulations for them, and in-
deed, in the very early years, they
rebelled against the officials of
the Baron. As a result they dipped
down into their own creative
abilities and set up original in-
stitutions like the kibbutz, the
moshav, the Histadrut, Kupat
Holim, etc. Tackling their own
problems enabled them to con-
tribute, rather than just to accept.
And now comes Leon Ilutovich,
recently retired after 37 years as
executive vice chairman of the
Zionist Organization of America,
who seizes upon the results of an
American Jewish Committee
survey on "Attitudes of American,
Jews toward Israel and Israelis."
In response to the question "Have
you ever seriously considered liv-
ing in Israel" no less than 17 per-
cent answered affirmatively. If
that figure is accurate, it means
that almost a million American
Jews have indeed given "serious"
thought to aliyah. If so, what has
gone wrong?
Ilutovich recommends first that
a new and comprehensive and
very carefully survey be con-
ducted to double check the accu-
racy of the AJCommittee find-
ings. If the results are confirmed,
even if only to the extent of 50
percent, he then suggests a revo-
lutionary, new approach to
aliyah. He calls for the setting up
of an American city, preferably in
the Galilee, financed from
America and populated by Ameri-
cans. It would be sort of Merkaz
Klita, absorption center, on a long
range basis, permitting the ab-
sorption of the Americans into the
The American city
would have an initial
population of 25,000
— with an ultimate
goal of 250,000.
life of Israel over a period of a gen-
eration or more. This would an-
swer the problem of so many
Americans who find it difficult to
adjust overnight to a new lan-
guage, a new culture, different
ways of life and customs and tra-
ditions. Immigrants from other
countries can succeed in doing it
because they have no alternative.
But Americans do have an alter-
native — they can return to New
York, as so many have done. Why
make life in Israel as difficult as
possible for them?
The American city would have
an initial population of 25,000 —
with an ultimate goal of 250,000,
he says. It would be a center of
high technology and a source of
industrial stimulation to the
whole country. He has no fears
that this would become an Ameri-
can ghetto, because the dominant,
pervasive influence and the edu-
cational system would assure the
gradual and relatively painless
absorption of the Americans into
the larger Israeli body politic.
Furthermore, many would
gradually move to other parts of
the country, while other Israelis
would move into the new city.
Surely this is a proposal which
warrants careful consideration. If
found feasible it will also require
a sponsoring body, means, and no
small degree of tolerance.
Mks Argue Over Funds
Jerusalem (JTA) — A new con-
troversy regarding the religious
parties emerged last weekend on
the Cabinet agenda.
The issue in question is the al-
location of state funds to religious
institutions. The Treasury de-
cided to allocate funds to those in-
stitutions according to the
number of MKs in the parties
sponsoring those institutions.
This applies predominantly to
Agudat Yisrael and Shas.
The Treasury bowed to pres-
sures by the religious partners in
the coalition, despite a legal opin-
ion by Attorney General Prof.
Yitzhak Zamir that the present
allocation system was improper.
The Cabinet is expected to dis-
cuss the issue at its weekly ses-
sion Sunday. Several Ministers,
among them Yaacov Tzur of the
Labor Alignment and Yoske
Shapiro of Morasha, already an-
nounced they would vote to
change the system.
In a letter to Premier Shimon
Peres Attorney General Zamir
wrote: "One should note that
these are public funds, and there-
fore they should be allocated to
the public as much as possible on
an equal basis. The allocation of
state funds to religious parties ac-
cording to their number of Knes-
seters, or the allocation of funds to
institutions according to their
political affiliation is unjustified,
neither as a matter of course, nor
as a function of equal distribu-
tion."
NRP leaders were expected to
meet Premier Shimon Peres last
weekend in an effort to get his
support for the change.
The NRP said that it got only
$2.6 million to hand out in the
1985-6 budgetary year, because it
did not ask for an increase as did
Shas and Agudat Yisrael. A
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spokesman for the party said that
since the party objected to the sys-
tem in principle, it decided to
make do with the original alloca-
tion.
Registration Set
For Ethiopian
Jews In Israel
Jerusalem (JTA) — All Ethio-
pian Jews who have entered Is-
rael in recent months will be offi-
cially registered as Jews, effective
April 1, Interior Minister Yitzhak
Peretz announced Sunday. He has
requested the Absorption Minis,
try to insert "Jewish" in the na-
tionality space on their identifica-
tion cards.
Many of the Ethiopian emigres
were not registered as Jews when
they arrived in Israel. The Ab-
sorption Ministry said their offi-
cial registration has nothing to do
with the demand by the Chief
Rabbinical Council that the new-
comers undergo conversion pro-
cedures. The Ethiopians, who re-
gard themselves as practicing ob-
servant Jews, consider the de-
mand insulting and demeaning.
Leaders of the Ethiopian com-
munity met with Absorption
Minister Yaacov Tzur last week to
voice their complaints. They were
assured by him that the govern-
ment regards them as Jews.
Meanwhile, the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee (JDC) reported that some
20,000 individuals, corporations,
foundations and Jewish com-
munities from throughout the
United States have thus far do-
nated $3.1 million in cash and
goods to the JDC's famine relief
effort in Ethiopia.
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