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Russians In Israel
Are Reported Doing Well
Jerusalem — The Soviet
emigre population in Israel
includes a higher proportion
of professionals than the
general Jewish population
and appears to have equal or
higher-than-average living
standards, according to a
study conducted by the Ab-
sorption Ministry's planning
and research department.
The study on the condition
of Soviet Jews who arrived in
Israel between 1970-1983
found that 92 percent of them
stayed in Israel.
There are 4,010 Soviet
engineers employed in their
profession, representing 18
percent of all Jewish
engineers in Israel. In addi-
tion, 22 percent of Jewish
practicing physicians are
Soviet emigres, as are 10 per-
cent of all Jewish nurses.
Other findings of the study
were:
• More than half of Soviet
immigrant households own
an apartment, a rate that in-
creases in accordance with
the duration of their residen-
cy and their level of
education.
• Soviet immigrants ap-
proach the Israeli average for
ownership of durable goods.
Thirty-eight percent own cars
and 56 percent have a color
television.
• The monthly income of
the Soviet emigre household
is $949, almost equal to the
average of the general Jewish
population.
• The Soviet immigrants
tend to settle in urban areas.
Forty-three percent of their
households are in the Tel Aviv
area, and 8 percent are in
Jerusalem.
• The Hebrew language is
widely spoken among the
younger and better educated
immigrants. About 40 per-
cent of them use Hebrew as
their main spoken language.
For 29 percent. Hebrew is the
second language.
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It all began in the fall of
1948, when a former
schoolteacher from the
United States was appointed
Israel's first Ambassador to
the Soviet Union. Golda Meir
later went on to serve as
Israel's Minister of Labor and
then as Minister of Foreign
Affairs from 1956 to 1966,
and reached the peak of her
career as Prime Minister
from 1969-1974.
Thday, women continue to
make great gains in the
Foreign Ministry. Israel cur-
rently has two female am-
bassadors abroad, career of-
ficer Anne-Marie Lambert,
Ambassador to Nepal, and
Ambassador to Norway
Judith Hubner, former depu-
ty director general of the
Ministry of the Interior.
Others are ascending quick-
ly through the diplomatic
ranks Collette Avital, 22
years in the ministry, has
served in Montreal, Brussels,
Boston and Paris. She is now
senior director of the Foreign
Ministry's training programs
Judith Varnai-Dranger,
principal assistant to the
department of North
America, has served in the
ministry ten years. She
recently returned from a five-
year assignment in New York
as spokesman for the Israeli
Mission at the United
Nations.
Tamar Samash, also ten
years in the service, acts as
principal assistant to the
cultural and scientific rela-
tions department. She served
three years as consul in Mon-
treal — often working 18
hours a day — while caring
for a 3-year-old son in the
absence of a husband who
was drafted to serve in the
1982 War in Lebanon.
In all, 36 female Foreign
Ministry career officers serve
today in posts ranging from
second secretary to am-
bassador in Israel and abroad
today. Yet these officers con-
stitute less than five percent
of the ministry's combined ad-
ministrative and political
force, and, though one of
them, Yael Vered, is an ad-
viser to the Foreign Minister,
no woman presently serves as
deputy director or director
general of a department.
Avital, Dranger and
Samash agree that the lack of
women officers serving in the
more distinguished
ministerial echelons does not
stem from discrimination.
There is simply a small
number of female cadettes
entering the ministry each
year.
World Zionist Press Service