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Italian Jews Look To U.S
For Help On Catacombs
New York (JTA) — The
Jewish catacombs of Italy,
which are to leave the custody
of the Vatican and become the
responsibility of the Italian gov-
ernment, have placed the Italian
Jewish community on the brink
of an historical cultural victory
— which might turn out to be a
pyrrhic victory unless there is
sufficient support from world
Jewry.
This is the message Tullia
Zevi, president of the Union of
Italian Jewish Communities, in
a recent speech at the Jewish
Museum in New York.
"This is our common roots, be-
cause, after all, the roots of
American Jewry are in Europe,"
Zevi said in an interview in a
New York cafe. Your roots are
our roots and we want to be the
custodian of our common roots
with your help." Zevi specifi-
cally is seeking financial sup-
port and archeological expertise
to aid in Italian Jewry's
maintenance of the catacombs.
There are about a dozen major
Jewish catacombs — under-
ground networks going back to
the First Century BCE and
spanning the next five — known
to have existed in Italy. Ar-
cheological explorations dating
back to the 1600s testify to their
existence in Rome, Sicily, Sar-
dinia and the southern region of
Apulia — especially Venosa and
Bari.
Scholars .estimate that in Im-
perial Rome, underground
Labyrinths were lined with up
to 100,000 tombs. The tombs
provide priceless information on
the daily lives of Jews in the
earliest European Diaspora.
Italy's 35,000 Jews, however,
now fear that lack of funds and
archeological know-how might
well impede the restoration,
further exploration and, above
all, conservation of the
catacombs.
According to Zevi, in the First
Century perhaps seven percent
of the Roman Empire's total
population was Jewish, and
Rome alone had about 40,000 to
60,000 Jews and 13 synagogues.
A 1981 archeological excava-
tion of the catacombs of Venosa
— since closed for safety reasons
— revealed the interesting fact
that Jewish and Christian sec-
tions were located in "such prox-
imity to one another" as to
suggest "a high level of interac-
tion in their communities" up to
the Ninth Century, according to
Prof. Eric Meyers of Duke Uni-
versity, who co-directed the Ita-
lian American Archeological
team with Prof. Cesare Col-
afemmina of Bari University.
Most of the Jewish catacombs
were plundered in the long cen-
turies before the Vatican
authorities took over their
supervision, and their treasures
still surface at private auctions.
These thefts stopped with the
Vatican takeover in 1929.
Reagan Asks Restoration
Of UNIFIL Funding
Washington (JTA) — The Re-
agan Administration said today
that it will seek a way to restore
the United States contribution
to the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebaona (UNIFIL), cut
out by Congress, by the time
UNIFIL's mandate is up for re-
newal in April.
We will explore how we can
best address this issue," State
Department deputy spokesman
Charles Redman said.
Redman noted that Congress
cut an $18 million appropriation
for UNIFIL from the State De-
partment's 1967 budget. He said
this would not affect UNIFIL's
current status, but if the United
Nations Security Council renews
the mandate in April a way will
have to be found to restore the
U.S. contribution.
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Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, Chief
of Staff Gen. Moshe Levy said
last week that Syria's recent
movement of surface-to-air mis-
siles in the direction of the
Syrian-Lebanese border ad-
versely affected Israel's freedom
of action. He told the Army
Radio that the General Staff is
considering possible steps to be
taken.
The Israel Defense Force re-
quires freedom to send its re-
connaisance planes over Leba-
non to keep a watch on terrorist
activity and to attack terrorist
concentrations when their ac-
tivities pose a danger, Levy
said. He reported that the Sy-
rians have moved SAM-2 mis-
siles closer to the Lebanese bor-
der. They recently placed SAM-6
and SAM-8 surface-to-air mis-
siles on the Beirut-Damascus
Road and near Baalbek in the
Bekaa Valley, but promptly
moved them out again, he said.
Levy hinted that the IDF has
indicated to the political leader-
ship what diplomatic measures
it considers necessary to meet
the potential threat.
Canada Honors
Wallenberg
Ottawa (JTA) — Raoul Wal-
lenberg, the Swedish diplomat
who saved the lives of thousands
of Jews in Budapest during the
closing months of World War II,
has been named an honorary
citizen of Canada in joint, bi-
partisan resolutions adopted by
the House of Commons and the
Senate, the two houses of the
Canadian Parliament.
Wallenberg, who disappeared
after his arrest by Soviet agents
when the Red Army entered
Budapest more . than 40 years
ago, is the first person ever to
be made an honorary citizen of
Canada.