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YOLKUT Music by Eric Rosenow and His Continentals Black Tie Optional Cocktails 6:00 Couvert $40 per person For reservation call American Red Magen David for Israel 353-0434 18 FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1987 Israel Downs Lavi Continued from Page 1 put off several times because of a cabinet deadlock on the issue, but the abstention by one cabinet minister on Sun- day tilted the balance in favor of a position recently adopted by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Late last week, Peres was persuaded that Israel could not afford such an ambitious project — Israel's largest ever industrial undertaking. It was also believed that he was motivated by concern that a decision in outright de- fiance of the United States might cause a serious rift in relations between Washing- ton and Jerusalem. In exchange for canceling the project, the United States will allow Israel to spend some $400 million a year of its annual $1.8 billion military aid allocation in locally developed weapons systems for the army and navy. This will mean that Israel will be able to continue to employ many of its highly skilled scientists and engineers in other fields, such as the development of pre- cision-guided missiles. Moshe Keret, managing director of Israel Aircraft In- dustries, Israel's largest enterprise which was develop- ing the plane, described the cabinet vote as "a critical decision" for his organization. "It was not just the produc- tion of the Lavi that was at stake," he said. "It was the production of military aircraft in Israel. "In my opinion, the decision has terminated that possibili- ty for the forseeable future." Although there was strong public support for the con- tinuation of the Lavi project — some opinion polls showed as many as 80 percent of the public in favor of the Lavi — there was little evidence of popular discontent when the decision was made to scrap the project. There was, however, a strong reaction from the 20,000-strong workforce of Israel Aircraft Industries, and many of the workers demonstrated outside the Knesset (parliament) while the debate was in progress. The following day, they took their protests onto the streets, blocking traffic along major arteries throughout the coun- try, including the Tel Aviv- Jerusalem highway, and abusing Histadrut labor federation head Yisrael Kessar when he arrived at the plant's headquarters to discuss the threatened mass layoffs. A spokesman for the work- ers claimed that at least 6,000 employees of Israel Air- craft Industries would be laid off as a result of Sunday's cabinet decision. One of the principal poli- tical casualties of the decision is likely to former Israel Am- bassador to the United States Moshe Arens, a former Defense Minister and one of the most vigorous advocates of the project. Immediately after the vote, he announced that he would resign from the cabinet, but later said he would withhold his resignation while a group of Likud Party ministers at- tempt to raise the issue again and reverse the decision. One of the prime movers of this rearguard action is another former Defense Mini- ster, Ariel Sharon, who described Sunday's vote as "a capitulation to foreigners." He accused Likud Party leader Yitzhak Shamir of having "navigated the government to a disgrace" and declared that "some of Israel's leaders have lost their direction, have lost their way, have lost their national honor." Political observers in Jerusalem, however, believe there is little likelihood that the Likud ministers will suc- ceed in reversing the decision. Berman Continued from Page 1 If Berman's nomination is accepted by the CJF board and approved at the General Assembly, it would highlight several years of service to the CJF. Berman has been a board member since 1965, a member of its executive com- mittee since 1980 and most recently, a vice president. He also has been chairing the organization's long range strategic planning committee and, working with City University of New York, developed a North American Jewish Data Bank in 1986, where Federations and scholars can access informa- tion from a range of studies for utilization in planning activities. Berman maintains close in- volvement with Detroit's Jewish Welfare Federation, which he has served as presi- dent from 1972 to 1975, chair- man of its executive commit- tee from 1975 to 1978 and again from 1981 to 1983, chairman of the United Jewish Charities endowment committee, president of United Hebrew Schools and a co-founder of what was the Junior Division in 1946. He received the Jewish com-