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wish to do so, to leave the
USSR and come to Israel"
and permitting all Jews in
the Soviet Union to have
schools and synagogues, learn
Hebrew, and exercise their
religion and culture.
After the State Department
meeting, Shultz stressed that
achieving these rights was a
"joint concern" of the United
State and Israel.
Shultz is scheduled to meet
Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze in
Geneva to discuss final plans
for the summit He will be
putting the final touch on the
various issues discussed with
the Soviets recently by his
senior aides.

Holocaust
Council Head

Washington (JTA) —Lyle
Ryter, a special assistant to
Labor Secretary Bill Brock,
was named last week as ex-
ecutive director of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council,
it was announced by Harvey
Meyerhoff, the council's
chairman. He succeeds Dr.
David Weinstein, who was
acting director since
February.
Ryter, who has served in
several federal agencies since
1964, was a deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce in
charge of the Office of Trade
Adjustment Assistance,
before going to the Labor
Department in 1985.
He has been active in the
American Jewish Committee
and the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs.

NEWS

Israel Allows
Gulf Passage

Tel Aviv (JTA)—Israel is
allowing free passage to ships
carrying supplies to Iraq
through the gulf of Eilat, the
newspaper Hadashot reported
last week.
The ships travel to Aqaba
along a route close to Eilat
without being disturbed by
Israel, as part of its policy of
neutrality with a slight lean-
ing toward Iraq in the gulf
war, the paper says. The
paper notes that Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres has
attacked the Khomeini
regime and his comments are
being identified as a clear
signal to Egypt and Jordan
that Israel has completely
severed ties with Iran.
It says that Peres viewed
the Amman summit as a test
of strength of the moderate
Arab countries in their con-
frontation with the Iranian
threat, and considered the

summit conference's resolu-
tions against Iran, the
strengthening of King Hus-
sein,. and the resumption of
relations with Egypt as a
good sign.

Germans Open
New Synagogue

Bonn (JTA) — A multi-
million dollar synagogue and
Jewish community center
was opened recently in
Freiburg, in the state of
Baden-Wuertemberg, to
replace the synagogue
destroyed by the Nazis 49
years ago.
The new center was built on
land donated by the local
authorities, who, along with
the state and federal govern-
ments, contributed toward its
cost. No more than 300 Jews
now live in the vicinity.
Mayor Rolf Boehme of
Freiburg recalled that 1,400
Jews had lived in the south
German town before the
Nazis came to power in 1933.
By 1941, none were left.
"What we inherited was
shame and guilt," Boehme
said.
Freiburg's
original
synagogue stood on land now
occupied by the local univer-
sity. A memorial plaque at
the site reminds visitors of its
destruction.

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Begin Prays
At Wife's Grave

Jerusalem (JTA) — Former
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin made a rare public ap-
pearance last Friday — at the
Mount of Olives cemetery to
recite "Kaddish" at the grave
of his wife Aliza on the fifth
anniversary of her death.
Begin, 74, looking pale and
thin, walked to the grave on
the arms of his daughters
Hassia and Leah. He was
joined by his son, Binyamin
Zeev Begin. He stood unsup-
ported during the 25-minute
memorial service, then
departed with silent nods at
the many well-wishers pres-
ent. He engaged in no
conversations.
Until his sudden retirement
in 1983, Begin was the fiery
leader of the Herut Party who
was relegated to the fringes of
Israeli politics until his Likud
bloc won the national election
in 1977, ending 30 years of
Labor Party rule. Even in
1983, he was still grieving
deeply for his wife, and was
said to be bitterly disil-
lusioned over the Lebanon
war.
Since then, Begin has lived
as a semi-recluse in his home
in the Yefe Nof neighborhood
of Jerusalem.

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