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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY'

THIS ISSUE 50c

Pentagon Asks Israel
To Monitor Spending

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ARpH 21, 1986

CLOSE-UP

Office of Management and Budget,
and the National Security Council re-
cently completed a lengthy cost
assessment study of the Lavi, Israel's
new-generation jet fighter. That
study, which has been sharply
criticized by Israel Aircraft Industries,
BY WOLF BLITZER
Special to The Jewish News
the prime Lavi contractor, concluded
that the plane will wind up costing
A senior Pentagon official has
Israel considerably more than IAI has
urged the Israeli defense establish-
projected.
ment to examine more carefully which
Continued development of the
,military systems it will manufacture
Lavi
will inevitably cut into Israel's
--- ;In the future. Deputy Under Secretary
ability to obtain other advanced U.S.
of Defense for Planning and Resources
military systems, the Zakheim-led
- Dov Zakheim clearly implied that Is-
Zakheim
and spending
a team its
from
the —study suggested, citing the prevailing
rael might
not be
limited
budget-cutting atmosphere in Wash-
military dollars as effectively as possi-
ington generated by the Gramm-
ble.
Rudman law and the resulting more
limited funds available to Israel and
Pentagon, the State Department, the
other foreign aid recipients in the fu-

U.S. budget cuts and
Israel's development
choices will affect security.

iBonds Elects
D. Hermelin

Hermelin

Detroiter
David B. Hermelin,
who led the Israel
Bond Organiza-
tion's record $505
million - sales
achievement last
year, has been
Israel
elected

Bonds' interna-

tional campaign chairman and chair-
man of its board of directors.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yehudah
alevy,
president of the Bond's Organ-
•
ization, said that in addition to Herme-
lin's leadership participation in the
Bond effort in the United States, "he
will now bring his dynamic leadership
talents and energies to our campaigns
abroad as well."
Israel's Minister of Finance Yit-
zhak Moda'i called Hermelin. "Your
success in leading the Bond campaign
to a record $505 million achievement
in 1985 has -had a very positive impact
for Israel's economy. I am sure that
under your leadership, the Bond
Organization will achieve new record
results internationally. I look forward
to our close cooperation."
Hermelin also serves as an inter-
national co-chairman for tourism on
the "Operation Independence" Task

ture. Without addressing the matter of
the Lavi directly, Zakheim went pub-
lic in urging Israel to tighten its own
military planning and budgeting sys-
tem in order to acquire the best mili-
tary equipment, possible at the lowest
price. Israel, simply put, cannot afford
any large-scale mistakes.
"These efforts demand people and
time, and expertise and dedication of
the highest order," Zakheim said in a
carefully-prePared speech in Wash-
ington. "I found that my Israeli coun-
terparts are second to none in their
dedication and expertise, but are far
fewer in number (than in the U.S.) and
as a result, have far less time to devote
to critical program, system and cost
evaluation tasks. These are matters

HAVE WE BEEN
MISREADING
JERRY FALVITELL?

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84
B'nai Mitzvah
83
Business
86
Classified Ads
4
Editorials
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Engagements ... ..
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Obituaries •
2
Purely Commentary
55
Danny Raskin
74
Singles
64
Synagogues .....
66
Women

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In an exclusive interview with The
Jewish News, the minister of
Lynchburg, Va.'s Thomas ROad
Baptist Church reveals that he
desperately wants to be a friend to
Jews, but his media image haunts him.

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