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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
-We do know that they are
extremely upset."
Last week's demonstration
made the front page of The
New York Times and virtually
every other U.S. big city daily.
Expressly because of this kind
of public relations success,
some observers suggest that
Ethiopian activists are being •
manipulated by experienced,
non-Ethiopian operatives.
Vocal Jewish activist groups
have long accused the Israeli
government of being indif-
ferent to the plight of Ethi-
opian Jews. Others maintain
that the demonstrations have
been organized by a small but
outspoken segment of young
Ethiopian Jews who are pro-
Marxist and anti-religious.
Prime Minister Peres, inter-
viewed on Israeli radio, said,
"I will try to meet with the
chief rabbis and see how the
We let them exercise
their folklore . . . But
all groups lose
something of what
they bring to Israel.
What's important is
for us to accept them
as they are, and then
they will choose
according to their
own free will what
they keep."
months before moving into the
general society, the Ethio-
pians generally need a full year
and a half of intensive orienta-
tion before they can leave the
security of an absorption
facility. This drastically com-
pounds expense to the Jewish
Agency. Even afterward,
authorities report an unwill-
ingness on the part of some
Ethiopians to leave absorption
centers and follow employ-
ment possibilities. They at-
tribute this partly to the need
for a support system, and
partly to the Ethiopians' tradi-
tional attachment to land
where they settle and cluster
in extended family groupings.
Perhaps the most visible
successes of absorption can be
seen among youth. On a recent
visit to Talpiot, a Youth
Aliyah village located in the
countryside between Haifa
and Tel Aviv, I hardly recog-
nized in the clean, energetic,
bright youngsters I encoun-
tered there the same filthy,
diseased, albeit engaging and
quick-witted kinds of young-
sters, I had seen only a few
months earlier in Ethiopia.
Already these children are
reading and writing Hebrew,
davenrng, wearing blue jeans,
posting pictures of Michael
Jackson on their dormitory
walls and declaring that they
want to be just like their
Israeli-born contemporaries.
Talpiot began receiving
Ethiopian youth in 1977, one
of the first residential institu-
tions to be involved in their ab-
sorption. Today, 60 Ethiopian
boys and girls between the
ages of 10 and 16 live and
suffering of the Ethiopian study at Talpiot alongside 95
Jews can be prevented. When other pupils from Israel and 20
the immigration from Ethi- other countries, including (ac-
opia began, the rabbinate cording to a map at the school
showed much understanding. tracing countries of origin) In-
I must check what happened dia, Yemen, China and the
United States. Fifty more
along the way."
students are ex-
Even with much more "un- Ethiopian
petted to enroll at Talpiot
derstanding," it is doubtful p&
this year after they pro-
whether the full set of re- later
gress
initial absorp-
ligious and cultural problems tion at through
centers.
confronting Ethiopians and
Altogether, the network of
Israelis will yeild to quick 'or
Aliyah schools in Israel
easy solutions. Some diffi- Youth
(mostly
residential, but more
vulties seem inevitable, in any and more
offering day facil-
substantial migration. In addi- ities) is educating
19,000
tion there is a wide gulf imp young people, of whom
about
orating Israel — a techno- 1,500 currently are Ethio-
logical marvel, despite its cur- pians. BY the year's end, ac-
rent economic straits — and cording to Elie Amit„ Youth
Ethiopia, one of the least Aliyah national director,
developed of the so-called about 2,000 youth of Ethio-
"devfloping" countries.
plan mien will be attending
Despite this, the Israelis Youth Aliyah schools. Most
onstrate, are either orphans or arrived
report, and dem
remarkable progrees in in. without their parents,
to 'tans of the Ethlo•
No one is giving out official
7 the young, f es for the number of
.
bac,
to
titian )1
6,000
,Jews to
to 4 I I I
but most
t Opor.
t
eon
Ethioslan
sad some 2,000
arrived pro.
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