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FRIDAY, AUG. 7, 1987

Agency Condemns
San Francisco Federation

WINSTON PICKETT

Special to The Jewish News

San
Francisco — The
United Israel Appeal, the cen-
tral funding body that fun-
nels money collected in the
United States to the Jewish
Agency in Israel, has voted to
condemn San Francisco's
federation for diverting
$100,000 from the Agency to
fund its own Israel programs.
Despite that vote, however,
officials here say that their
action succeeded in calling at-
tention to the need to reform
the Jewish Agency's funding
process. The Federation main-
tains that a broad spectrum of
American Jews both inside
and outside that multimillion
dollar philanthropic organiza-
tion now agree the reforms
are necessary.
The resolution declares op-
position to "the actions of the
San Francisco federation in
allocating funds and support-
ing programs in Israel outside
the normal process of the
Jewish Agency and outside
the united system of funding'
in the United States."
The San Francisco Federa-
tion last year sought to send
a signal to the Jewish Agen-
cy to alter its funding
priorities by allocating
$100,000 directly to special
projects aimed at promoting
democracy in Israel, in-
cluding Arab-Jewish rela-
tions; at improving Israel-
diaspora relations, and at en-
couraging religious pluralism
in Israel.
To date, no other communi-
ty has followed suit.
But San Francisco officials
say that while there was
criticism of their method of
voicing dissatisfaction, there
is widespread support for
their message, a call for
reform. They point to the fact
that a resolution passed by
the Assembly called on the
Jewish Agency to be "respon-
sive to innovative programs
and services in Israel" and to
develop a mechanism of fun-
ding those programs under
Agency auspices. And two
other resolutions called on
the Agency to look into pro-
jects that would promote
Israel-Diaspora links and in-
volve Israeli citizens without
regard to party affiliation.
Also, a Louis Harris poll,
made public at the assembly,
found that a majority of U.S.
Jewish federation, Zionist
and religious leaders, by a
61-22 percent margin, think

that the Jewish Agency "does
not reflect the composition of
life in the Jewish world to-
day?' Close to half the respon-
dants give a negative rating
to the way the Agency
allocates its funds. The poll
also indicates that a majority
of Jewish leaders want to
have "more say in the
deliberations of the Jewish
Agency," based on their belief
that those who raise money
for the Agency are simply not
cut into the decision-making
process.
Courtesy of the Northern
California Jewish Bulletin.

Britain Will Not
Try Ex-Nazi

London (JTA) — Alleged
Nazi war criminal Antanas
Gecas will neither be tried in
Britain nor extradited to
Israel, the Home Office said
last week. It was commenting
on a Jerusalem report that
Israel would prosecute Gecas
if Britain failed to do so.
Gecas, a 71-year-old Lithua-
nian resident in Edinburgh,
strongly denies that his bat-
talion was responsible for
murdering more than 50,000
Jews in 1941.
A Home Office spokes-
woman said it would be im-
possible to try anyone in this
country who was not a British
subject at the time of the
alleged offenses. The British-
Israel extradition treaty also
applied only to crimes com-
mitted in either country.
She confirmed that the
Home Office was studying
evidence concerning Gecas'
application for British citizen-
ship in 1956. Gecas' lawyer
said he understood his client's
naturalization application
had been investigated by the
Home Office and found to be
satisfactory.

Peres To Meet
Soviet Diplomat

New York (JTA) — Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres is scheduled to meet
with Soviet Foreign Minister
Edward Shevardnze here at
the end of September, diplo-
matic sources disclosed last
Monday.
The two officials will meet
while attending the UN
General Assembly, which is
to open here September 21.
Peres is scheduled to arrive in
New York on September 28,
after Rosh Hashanah.

