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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Premier
Shimon Peres, who returned
home Friday after meeting with
Pope John Paul II at the Vatican,
Italian President Bennino Craxi
in Rome, and Romanian
President Nicolae Ceausescu in
Bucharest said that the topic
which was common at all the
meetings was that of an interna-
tional conference on the Middle
East.
Peres said he explained that Is-
rael could not support such a con-
ference because it would be
attended by the Soviet Union,
which had severed diplomatic re-
lations with Israel; by the People's
Republic of China, which never
recognized Israel; by Syria, which
wants to destroy Israel; and by the
PLO, which is engaged in ter-
rorist acts against Israel.
The Premier said that the ex-
change of views with his hosts
"were very frank, very cordial. I
was given a fair opportunity to
explain our position very care-
fully" and that he and Minister
Without Portfolio Ezer Weizman,
who accompanied the Prime
Minister on the two-day trip,
"really had an open and friendly
ear wherever we went."
Romania is the only Soviet bloc
country which has maintained

friendly relations with Israel,
serving as an intermediary be-
tween Israel and the Arabs.
Peres ended the trip here by tel-
ling a news conference that Israel
would welcome a visit by King
Hussein of Jordan. He also offered
to go to Jordan for peace talks.
"I am sure Israel would like to
see King Hussein, would like him
to come to Jerusalem, to announce
whatever he has on his mind,"
Peres said. The Premier also re-
ferred to Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat's historic 1978 trip
to Israel.

In Italy, Peres met with Pope
John Paul II at the Vatican for
about 40 minutes last Tuesday. A
Vatican spokesman said after-
wards that they discussed
Jewish-Christian relations and
Jerusalem in addition to the pro-
' posed Mideast summit and that
the main differences between Is-
rael and the Vatican were not re-
solved.
Peres told reporters after the
meeting that he did not ask the
Pontiff for Vatican diplomatic re-
lations with Israel and that he
had made it clear that Jerusalem
will always be the political capital
of Israel with full respect for the
religious rights of all faiths.

Rabbis Overturn Ruling
On Ethiopian Emigres

Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Chief
Rabbinate has overturned a rul-
ing by the former Sephardic Chief
Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, rec-
ognizing Ethiopian Jews as such
without their having to undergo
symbolic conversion by immer-
sion in a mikveh (ritual bath).
Israel's incumbent Sephardic
Chief Rabbi, Mordechai Eliahu,
was abroad last week when the
Chief Rabbinate upheld its prev-
ious insistence that symbolic con-
version was mandatory for the
thousands of Ethiopian Jews who
have immigrated to Israel in re-
cent months. But an earlier de-
mand that a drop of blood be
drawn from each Ethiopian male
to symbolize circumcision, was
dropped.
The Ethiopian emigres, who are
devoutly observant, reacted an-
grily to both demands. They con-
sidered the proposed require-
ments degrading, insulting and a
sign of doubt as to their authentic-
ity as Jews. The Sephardic rabbi-
nate has been more lenient re-
garding the Ethiopians than the
Ashkenazic or Western Orthodox
rabbis. Rabbi Yosef told a confer-
ence of Ethiopians last week that
"if the Ashkenazim rejectd them,
the Sephardim would take them
into their midst."
Rabbi David Shloush, a
Sephardic rabbi, performed a
marriage ceremony in Netanya
Feb. 9 uniting two Ethiopians
without requiring the groom to
show proof that he had been to a
mikveh. Rabbi Shloush said he
had agreed to officiate on the basis
of Rabbi Yosef's ruling.
The Ethiopian Foreign Minis-
try meanwhile, has demanded the
return of some 12,000 black Jews

secretly transported to Israel via
Operation Moses earlier this year.
The Ministry accused Israel
and Sudan last weekend of "con-
spiracy" and "unlawful abduc-
tion" in organizing the departure
from famine-stricken northern
Ethiopia of the country's Jewish
population.
"The uprooting of black people
from where they have lived peace-
fully for centuries is a serious of-
fense not only to Ethiopia and Af-
rica, but also to blacks
worldwide," a statement from the
Ministry said. It said claims that
the Ethiopian Jews are one of the
lost tribes of Israel have "no his-
torical, archeological or an-
thropological basis."

2 Jews Play
For Davis Cup

New York (JTA) — Two Jewish
tennis players, Elliot Telscher
and Detroiter Aaron Krickstein,
have been selected to represent
the United States in the opening
round of singles competition
against the Japanese Davis Cup
representatives in matches to be
held in Japan March 8-10.
This marks the second time in
34 years that two Jewish tennis
stars have been chosen to partici-
pate, jointly, in Davis Cup
matches against foreign competi-
tion. In 1951 Dick Savitt, a Wimb-
ledon tournament champion, and
Herb Flam of California, were the
Americans who played against
the Japanese Davis Cup represen-
tatives at the Boat Club in Louis-
ville, Ky. Both Savitt and Flam
won their respective matches.

